fueling

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Verb

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fueling

  1. (American spelling) (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel

Noun

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fueling (plural fuelings)

  1. The act or process by which something is fueled.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
      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.

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