refuel
Americanverb (used with object)
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refuels,
present (3rd person singular)
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refueled,
past participle, past
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refuelled,
past participle, past (especially British)
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refueling,
present participle
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refuelling
present participle (especially British)
verb (used without object)
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refuels,
present (3rd person singular)
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refueled,
past participle, past
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refuelled,
past participle, past (especially British)
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refueling,
present participle
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refuelling
present participle (especially British)
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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refuelsimple
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refuelssimple
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have refueledperfect
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have refuelledperfect
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has refueledperfect
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has refuelledperfect
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am refuelingprogressive
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am refuellingprogressive
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are refuelingprogressive
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are refuellingprogressive
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is refuelingprogressive
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is refuellingprogressive
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have been refuelingperfect progressive
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have been refuellingperfect progressive
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has been refuelingperfect progressive
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has been refuellingperfect progressive
Past
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refueledsimple
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refuelledsimple
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had refueledperfect
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had refuelledperfect
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was refuelingprogressive
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was refuellingprogressive
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were refuelingprogressive
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were refuellingprogressive
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had been refuelingperfect progressive
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had been refuellingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of refuel
Example Sentences
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Some passengers took flights out while others remained in the city, he said, adding that the ship itself was due to refuel and leave on October 31.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
By taking lessons from 7-Eleven’s model in Japan, Mauricio Leyva bets he can refuel the brand’s growth in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
On Wednesday, a driver in Aryanshahr, in the conservative heartland of northeast Iran, said he was stranded with his family at a gas station after trying to refuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Then the ice cream man returns to refuel his targeted customers, who try to convert our well-cast, engaging trio of young double-scoop holdouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
It’s the end of June, and Grandpa Ed will soon be meeting her midway during the warmer weather, just to refuel her hydration.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
“If you want to be a good business person, you figure it out. I used to be more relaxed about this,” said the 55-year-old, who refuels every other day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Before morning training he drinks eloctrolytes, and refuels afterwards with a banana and another protein shake.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
A customer refuels their vehicle at a Mobil gas station in Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, U.S.,
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2022
At any given moment, seven of them are armed with nuclear warheads and discreetly traversing the Pacific Ocean while one refuels at Bangor.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022
They'll never think to look for you in space, we can be together every trip while the ship refuels.
From The Love of Frank Nineteen by David Carpenter Knight
The planes were refueled in flight three times so that the nuclear cargo wouldn’t need to spend time on foreign airfields before arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
You can’t blockade a reactor that only needs to be refueled every 18 months.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Strikes are delivered by a combination of manned fighter jets and bombers from Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop, all refueled mid-air by a fleet of hundreds of Boeing-made airborne tankers.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
But the delay required the plane to be refueled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
That job might be meeting each plane and guiding it to be refueled in the dark, or holding its wing before takeoff.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
When the McLaren pit crew refuelled a car, changed its tyres and relayed information to their driver in less than seven seconds at the Spanish Grand Prix in 2001, they were just doing their jobs.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Everything I want done, I want done yesterday," she said in a recent interview on the campaign trail, where she reputedly refuelled by peeling hard-boiled eggs.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The trained massage therapist recalled during the Newsnight discussion that she gave Clinton a neck and back massage at an airport in Portugal while the plane refuelled.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
And while it has the advantage that the bus can be refuelled in a matter of minutes rather than hours, that premium is now perceived as not worth paying.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Salt Lake City was beneath them almost before they knew it and when the plane landed there Janet and Helen got out to stretch their legs while the crews were changed and the plane refuelled.
From Janet Hardy in Radio City by Ruthe S. Wheeler
The plane makes a brief refueling stop at the virtually empty airport.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
A large number of U.S. military personnel remain in Israel and refueling tankers are stationed at Israel’s main airport as well as air force bases in the south.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
He then pretended to board the old Air Force One, only to secretly switch planes by hiding in a refueling truck, due to security threats.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Westinghouse has since focused more on its core business—making nuclear fuel, refueling reactors and maintaining many of the world’s nuclear power plants—while insulating itself from civil construction risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
They could go 700 miles at 350 miles an hour without refueling, and climb up to four miles high in seven minutes.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
Starting Wednesday, foreign companies that provide refuelling and other services to Iranian airlines risk facing U.S. secondary sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The PM said he had agreed to give refuelling support to Saudi jets on advice from Defence Secretary Wes Streeting and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Reactor 2 was taken offline on August 4 for refuelling, during which 20 of the 121 fuel assemblies in the reactor core were replaced.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, 13 US military personnel based in the Middle East have also been killed, seven in Iranian attacks and six in a refuelling plane crash in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
He sat and pondered until the refuelling operations were completed and the "Golden Hind" allowed to rise a hundred feet above the sea.
From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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