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FUELED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heated, driven, or produced by burning fuel
Classified under:
Similar:
clean-burning (leaving little contamination while consuming fuel)
coal-burning; coal-fired (fueled by burning coal)
wood-burning; wood-fired (fueled by wood)
liquid-fueled (fueled by a liquid fuel)
oil-fired (fueled by burning oil)
Antonym:
unfueled (not provided with fuel)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fuel
Context examples:
Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers, fueled by highly flammable eucalyptus trees.
(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The intense prehistoric hurricanes were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean than have been the norm off the U.S. East Coast over the last few hundred years.
(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)
Burning a combination of refined kerosene called RP-1 and liquid oxygen and carrying a single solid-fueled booster, the first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 pushed the spacecraft through the dense lower layers of the atmosphere, then the Centaur upper stage took over, propelling OSIRIS-REx faster and higher.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
