Fuel

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something consumed to produce energy, especially:
  • n. A material such as wood, coal, gas, or oil burned to produce heat or power.
  • n. Fissionable material used in a nuclear reactor.
  • n. Nutritive material metabolized by a living organism; food.
  • n. Something that maintains or stimulates an activity or emotion: "Money is the fuel of a volunteer organizationā€ ( Natalie de Combray).
  • v. To provide with fuel.
  • v. To support or stimulate the activity or existence of: rhetoric that fueled the dissenters.
  • verb-intransitive. To take in fuel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
  • n. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  • n. Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
  • v. to provide fuel
  • v. to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
  • n. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
  • v. To feed with fuel.
  • v. To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any matter which serves by combustion for the production of fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, oil, etc.
  • n. Figuratively, anything that serves to feed or increase something conceived as analogous to flame, as passion or emotional excitement.
  • To feed or furnish with fuel or combustible matter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. provide with fuel
  • n. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy
  • v. provide with a combustible substance that provides energy
  • v. stimulate
  • v. take in fuel, as of a ship
  • Verb Form
    fueled    fueling    fuelled    fuelling    fuels   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    furnish    provide    supply    render    shake up    stir    shake    excite    stimulate   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    fuelled    fuelling   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    firing    kindling    breeze   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdul    Boole    Dzhambul    Ewell    Greuel    Istanbul    Jewel    Joule    Poole    Rahul   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gas    gasoline    supply    chemical    oxygen    food    ammunition    coal    material    energy