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fuel
- /ˈfjuːəl/
- /ˈfjuːl/
- [ˈfjuwəɫ] US
Rhymes with -uːəl, -uːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).
noun fuels
- Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
- Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. A little fuel to get down the mountain.
- Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. His books were fuel for the revolution.
verb fuels · fueling · fuelling · fueled · fuelled
- To provide with fuel. […] Lieutenant Hirsch appeared with a sheaf of signals in his hand. He took these from the young man and read them through. Mostly they dealt with routine matters of the fuelling and victualling, but one from the Third Naval Member’s office was unexpected.
- To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, an
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Closest in meaning: fire, combustible, combustible material, heating, fan, lpg, gas, gasoline, cng, petrol, kerosene, pool, petroleum, tank, firewood, motor
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noun substance consumed to provide energy
| Español | combustible, lumbre |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 연료 yeollyo |
| 日本語 | 燃料 nenryō |
| 中文 | 燃料 ránliào |
| हिन्दी | ईंधन īndhan, इंधन indhan |
| Português | combustível |
| Français | carburant, combustible |
| Deutsch | Brennstoff, Treibstoff |
| Italiano | carburante, combustibile |
| Ελληνικά | καύσιμο káfsimo |
| Română | combustibil, carburant |
| Русский | то́пливо tóplivo, горю́чее gorjúčeje |
| Tiếng Việt | nhiên liệu |
| العربية | وَقُود waqūd |
| עברית | דֶּלֶק délek |
noun substance that provides nourishment
| Italiano | rifornimento |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | τροφή trofí |
Talk about this word "fuel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fuel. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. fuel. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fuel "fuel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fuel.Cite this
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title = {fuel},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
