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unfuelling

unfuelling is the present participle and gerund of unfuel.

Meaning of unfuel

Verb

unfuel (third-person singular simple present unfuels, present participle (US) unfueling or (UK) unfuelling, simple past and past participle (US) unfueled or (UK) unfuelled)

  1. (transitive) To remove fuel from.
    • On 20th July, during the third attempt, the launch was pulled with 3 min 5 sec to go and it was decided to unfuel the rocket and try again later.2007, The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik, New Frontiers
    Synonyms:
    defuel

Questions about unfuelling

What is unfuelling the present participle and gerund of?
Unfuelling is the present participle and gerund of unfuel.

Words near unfuelling in the dictionary

  1. unfudged
  2. unfuel
  3. unfueled
  4. unfueling
  5. unfuelled
  6. unfuelling
  7. unfuels
  8. unfulfil
  9. unfulfill
  10. unfulfillable
  11. unfulfillably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfuelling (page history and authors); unfuel (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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