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fuelled

/ˈfjuː.əld/

fuelled is the simple past and past participle of fuel.

Meaning of fuel

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

See all 5 meanings of fuel

Forms of fuelled

alternative formfueled

Words formed from fuelled

Phrases with fuelled

Questions about fuelled

What is fuelled the simple past and past participle of?
Fuelled is the simple past and past participle of fuel.
How do you pronounce fuelled?
Fuelled is pronounced /ˈfjuː.əld/.

Words near fuelled in the dictionary

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

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