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defuelling

defuelling is the present participle and gerund of defuel.

Meaning of defuel

Verb

defuel (third-person singular simple present defuels, present participle (US) defueling or (UK) defuelling, simple past and past participle (US) defueled or (UK) defuelled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the fuel from.
    • to defuel an aircraft

Questions about defuelling

What is defuelling the present participle and gerund of?
Defuelling is the present participle and gerund of defuel.

Words near defuelling in the dictionary

  1. defucosylations
  2. defuel
  3. defueled
  4. defueling
  5. defuelled
  6. defuelling
  7. defuels
  8. defugalties
  9. defugalty
  10. defunct
  11. defuncted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defuelling (page history and authors); defuel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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