fuel
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old French: feuaile , from 1200 up to 1500 = 'ce qui alimente le feu'
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[edit] Noun
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fuel (plural fuels)
- a flammable substance
- a substance consumed to power an engine through the release of chemical or nuclear energy
- a substance used by a machine or a process to produce energy or power
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flammable substance
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substance consumed to power an engine
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[edit] Verb
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to fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle fueling, simple past and past participle fueled)
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to fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle fuelling, simple past and past participle fuelled)
- to provide fuel
- to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater
[edit] Usage notes
- fuelled and fuelling are mainly British spellings.
[edit] Translations
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