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refuelling

refuelling is the present participle and gerund of refuel.

Meaning of refuel

Verb

refuel (third-person singular simple present refuels, present participle (US) refueling or (UK) refuelling, simple past and past participle (US) refueled or (UK) refuelled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To refill with fuel.
    • […] bundle the sorted, weighed, zipcoded parcels aboard the already refueled aircraft, which speedily take off […]1989, Richard L. Daft, Organization theory and design

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Noun

refuelling (countable and uncountable, plural refuellings)

  1. (UK) The provision of more fuel to replace that used up.
    • The DMUs [diesel multiple units] used on the branch (mainly Class 158s) are based at Heaton depot in Newcastle; with a 1,500 mile range, the DMUs have to visit for refuelling once every three days.2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77
    • Another site of early railway enterprise to be upgraded to 2* before benefiting from restoration (which would remove it from the 2024 at-risk register) is the S&DR [Stockton & Darlington Railway] coal drops, located in Shildon's Locomotive museum. After it was upgraded in 2021 […], 2022 research by...2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 54

Forms of refuelling

Verb
alternative formrefueling
Noun
pluralrefuellings

Phrases with refuelling

Questions about refuelling

What does refuelling mean?
Refuelling means the provision of more fuel to replace that used up.
What is refuelling the present participle and gerund of?
Refuelling is the present participle and gerund of refuel.
What part of speech is refuelling?
Refuelling is a noun.
What is the plural of refuelling?
The plural of refuelling is refuellings.

Words near refuelling in the dictionary

  1. refuelings
  2. refuellable
  3. refuelled
  4. refueller
  5. refuellers
  6. refuelling
  7. refuellings
  8. refuels
  9. refuge
  10. refuge island
  11. refuge islands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refuelling (page history and authors); refuel (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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