Meanings
- US(Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel
plural fuelings
- The act or process by which something is fueled.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe activity of supplying or taking on fuel
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Spanish repostaje, estación de repostaje
- repostajeTranslations
- estación de repostajeTranslations
Cite this entry
fueling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fueling
“fueling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fueling. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fueling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fueling.
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