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# refuel

«refuel» in Mova's school dictionary: **to fill a car, plane, ship or other vehicle with fuel again** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (refuel, refuels, refuelled (UK) / refueled (USA), refuelling (UK) / refueling (USA))

### meaning for a pupil

1) To refuel is to fill a car, plane, ship or other vehicle with fuel again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#m1)

2) (informal) To refuel is to eat and drink to get your energy back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life cars refuel at petrol (UK) or gas (USA) stations; planes refuel at airports. In maths problems: how many litres are needed to refuel, how much it costs. Joking use: «Let's refuel» = let's have a snack. Phrases: «stop to refuel», «refuelling stop».

### examples

- We stopped to refuel on the motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x1)
- The plane landed to refuel before flying on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x2)
- After football practice I need to refuel with a sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x3)
- It cost $60 to refuel the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x4)
- The tank holds 50 litres; it had 10 litres left, so we needed 40 litres to refuel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x5)
- The rescue boat refuelled at the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x6)
- The runners refuelled with oranges at half-time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/#x7)

### note

UK doubles the l (refuelled, refuelling); USA uses one l (refueled, refueling). In maths, the fuel needed = full tank − fuel already in the tank.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «refuel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refuel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.