refuel
verb
re·fu·el
(ˌ)rē-ˈfyü(-ə)l 
refueled; refueling; refuels
: to provide with additional fuel
: to take on additional fuel
Examples of refuel in a Sentence
The crew refueled the airplane.
The airplane landed to refuel.
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In the coming years, SpaceX customers may dream of using Dragon to clean up space junk, or to refuel a space telescope that has run out of gas, or to simply float untethered from a spacecraft because Bruce McCandless looked cool doing it in 1988.
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Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
The 73-year-old Canadian-American dual national was detained by police when his ship docked in the Greenland capital Nuuk to refuel, according to the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF) and Greenland police.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 22 July 2024
The major reason for that isn’t the cars but the chargers needed to refuel EV batteries.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 16 July 2024
They were headed for Charleston, West Virginia, about 560 miles southwest, to refuel before heading on to suburban Atlanta.
—Thomas Lake, CNN, 12 July 2024
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Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
The 73-year-old Canadian-American dual national was detained by police when his ship docked in the Greenland capital Nuuk to refuel, according to the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF) and Greenland police.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 22 July 2024
The major reason for that isn’t the cars but the chargers needed to refuel EV batteries.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 16 July 2024
They were headed for Charleston, West Virginia, about 560 miles southwest, to refuel before heading on to suburban Atlanta.
—Thomas Lake, CNN, 12 July 2024
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“Refuel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/refuel. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.
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refuel
verb
re·fu·el
(ˈ)rē-ˈfyü-əl
: to provide with or take on more fuel
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