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fuels

fuels is the plural of fuel.

fuels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fuel.

Meaning of fuel

Noun

fuel (countable and uncountable, plural fuels)

  1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
    • More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  2. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
    • A little fuel to get down the mountain.2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes
  3. (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
    • His books were fuel for the revolution.

See all 5 meanings of fuel

Phrases with fuels

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Questions about fuels

What is fuels the plural of?
Fuels is the plural of fuel.

Words near fuels in the dictionary

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

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