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REFUEL
refuel
(verb) take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car
refuel
(verb) provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
refuel (third-person singular simple present refuels, present participle refuelling or (US) refueling, simple past and past participle refuelled or (US) refueled)
(ambitransitive) To refill with fuel.
Usage notes
• Refuelled and refuelling are mainly British spellings.
Noun
refuel (plural refuels)
An act or instance of refilling with fuel.
Anagrams
• ferule, fueler
Source: Wiktionary
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RAREFACTION
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
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