fueled

Verb

fuel (third-person singular simple present fuels, present participle (US) fueling or (UK) fuelling, simple past and past participle (US) fueled or (UK) fuelled)

1. (transitive) 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.1957, Neville Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow & Co
2. (transitive) 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...2023 December 8, Jennifer Senior, “What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?”, in The Atlantic

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