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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
refuel
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some military planes can refuel in mid-air.
▪ The attack refueled fears the war would begin again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite the conditions the long passage was uneventful and William Lukin was refuelled and declared ready for service again by 0800.
▪ It too would have to refuel in Newfoundland, giving them a twelve-hour lead.
▪ On lap 49 Schumacher made his sole refuelling stop and resumed 11.1sec ahead of Coulthard, who had yet to come in.
▪ The pilot went to the front of the plane to work the controls, and the men started to refuel the plane.
▪ They landed at Benina to refuel.
▪ When the wire has all but disappeared, it is time to land and refuel!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
refuel

also re-fuel, 1811, from re- "again" + fuel (v.). Originally in a spiritual sense. Related: Refueled; refuelling.

Wiktionary
refuel

n. An act or instance of refueling. vb. To refill with fuel.

WordNet
refuel
  1. v. provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars

  2. take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car

  3. [also: refuelling, refuelled]

Usage examples of "refuel".

The Saudis mobilized their armed forces, began training volunteers, broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France, banned the refueling of their ships in Saudi ports, and embargoed oil shipments to both countries.

It stayed in this position for the remainder of the flight, except the refueling runs over the north pole and the return leg from arctic Russia to Minot AFB.

Cat made arrangements for tie-down and refueling, then they got a taxi to Parador Ticuna.

Instead, he organized the refueling and postflight routines at a time when most of the island life was at ebb tide, and they all prepared to sleep on the plane.

There was a great deal of activity around the helicopter and he could distinguish Primmer standing to one side and directing the refueling operations.

By this time most pilots had learned something of the job of refuelling and rearming the fighters.

At midday a few days later while we are refuelling we are again surprised by an American formation which immediately comes down to attack our aircraft.

At Debrecen a lot of time is wasted refuelling so it becomes too late to take off for Rumania before dark.

They left Jonas and Aaron to guard the Land-Rover and help with loading and refuelling for the second trip and Sally-Anne taxied out to the end of the strip 297 when it was just light enough to make out the tracks.

He outlined the idea, fast: refuel and resupply from the pods in sync orbit, same as the near-Earth patrol ships would.

Which is, we refuel and resupply at whichever orbital station you assign us, and then move out ASAP on the next leg of our mission.

Benteen, who had been chauffering logs and natives for much of the day, learned about the rafting scarn later, as they were laboriously refueling her Letoumeau.

A carefully drawn line cut across Germany, over the mostly empty green of the Thuringer Wald, past Fulda, towards a small village north of Frankfurt am Main and Weisbaden, to a temporary field where they were scheduled to refuel.

On its return trip to Dublin the Whippet stopped at Templemore Barracks for refueling.

Exeter to refuel and pick up some emergency avgas, canned aviation fuel.