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fueling up

fueling up is the present participle and gerund of fuel up.

Meaning of fuel up

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To eat hurriedly in order to do something more interesting.

Questions about fueling up

What is fueling up the present participle and gerund of?
Fueling up is the present participle and gerund of fuel up.

Words near fueling up in the dictionary

  1. fuelie
  2. fuelies
  3. fueling
  4. fueling station
  5. fueling stations
  6. fueling up
  7. fuelings
  8. fuelish
  9. fuelled
  10. fuelled up
  11. fueller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fueling up (page history and authors); fuel up (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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