Cryptic crossword clue
God is hurt, abandoned by one 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word PAN

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What does PAN mean?

PAN noun
  1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
  4. A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
  5. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
  6. An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
  7. Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
  8. Strong adverse criticism.
  9. A loaf of bread.
  10. The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
  11. A human face, a mug.
  12. (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
  13. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
  14. The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
  15. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
  16. The brain, seen as one's intellect
  17. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
PAN verb
  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
  3. With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
  4. (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
  5. To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
PAN noun
  1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
  2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
  3. Meanings relating to a container.
  4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
  5. Meanings relating to computing.
  6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
PAN verb
  1. Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.
  2. To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
  3. (audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
PAN noun
  1. A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.
PAN verb
  1. To join or fit together; to unite.
PAN noun
  1. A part; a portion.
  2. (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  3. A leaf of gold or silver.
PAN adjective
  1. Pansexual.

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