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fuelling up

fuelling 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 fuelling up

What is fuelling up the present participle and gerund of?
Fuelling up is the present participle and gerund of fuel up.

Words near fuelling up in the dictionary

  1. fuelless
  2. fuellessness
  3. fuelling
  4. fuelling station
  5. fuelling stations
  6. fuelling up
  7. fuellings
  8. fuels
  9. fuels up
  10. fuelwood
  11. fuelwoods

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