carburate

Verb

carburet (third-person singular simple present carburets, present participle (US) carbureting or (UK) carburetting, simple past and past participle (US) carbureted or (UK) carburetted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To react with carbon.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
   • Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe...
3. (transitive) To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
4. (transitive) To equip with a carburetor.
   • Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.

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