fueling — ozdic

Collocations

4

ADJ.

ceaseless, industrial, over, revanchist

VERB + FUELING

anger, costs, flooded, rising, strikes

FUELING + NOUN

anxieties, consumers, craze, daughter, militancy, movements, nationalist, s

PREP.

among, in

Definitions

verb

1

(Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel

noun

1

The act or process by which something is fueled.

Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the activity of supplying or taking on fuel

refueling

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the

Wiktionary

02

Rising costs are fueling anxieties among consumers.

Tatoeba · #319917

03

Teenagers are fueling the craze by posting videos as short as 15 seconds of themselves dancing, lip-syncing, being silly and generally showing off.

Tatoeba · #8309467

04

Collateral damage caused by the strikes is fueling militancy in the region.

Tatoeba · #11462415

05

Martino is just fueling his daughter’s obsession.

Tatoeba · #11711053

06

Anger is fueling a fire that threatens to consume me.

Tatoeba · #12118111

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, fueling is marked as US. Watch for register when choosing this word.