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Word entry · 4 letters

fuel

Best crossword clue

"Energy for a vehicle"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈfjuːəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted efluStarts with FEnds with L7 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Material burned for energy; also to stimulate or feed something.

Word origin

From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).

Used in a sentence

  • More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
  • A little fuel to get down the mountain.
  • His books were fuel for the revolution.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues

01Energy for a vehicle4 letters
02Engine food4 letters
03Gas or coal4 letters
04Material burned for power4 letters
05What a tank holds4 letters
06What powers an engine4 letters
07Gasoline or diesel4 letters

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