FUELED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fueled mean? 

• FUELED (adjective)
  The adjective FUELED has 1 sense:

1. heated, driven, or produced by burning fuel

  Familiarity information: FUELED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUELED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heated, driven, or produced by burning fuel

Similar:

clean-burning (leaving little contamination while consuming fuel)

coal-burning; coal-fired (fueled by burning coal)

wood-burning; wood-fired (fueled by wood)

liquid-fueled (fueled by a liquid fuel)

oil-fired (fueled by burning oil)

Antonym:

unfueled (not provided with fuel)

 Context examples 

The South Korean government has recently announced plans for 16,000 more hydrogen-fueled cars and 310 special refilling stations.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

These extreme temperatures fueled the star’s next phase as it began to fuse helium into heavier atoms such as carbon and oxygen.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

Many remember how Voyager 2's approach images of Neptune and its planet-sized moon Triton fueled anticipation of the discoveries to come.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Researchers created a new type of battery—made of paper and fueled by bacteria.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

About 55 minutes after launch, the asteroid sampling spacecraft separated from the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fueled second stage rocket to fly free.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

Such optogenetic approaches utilizing light-activatable proteins for modulating the function of cells are being explored in many biological systems and have fueled efforts toward the development of a new genre of treatments.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Astronomers are studying quasars to see if and how accretion disks are fueled with external mass.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Freshwater lakes range from oligotrophic, with see-to-the-bottom clear waters and low nutrient levels, to eutrophic, with an overgrowth of algae fueled by an excess of nutrients.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

Their promixity to one another, along with the caves' and mines' natural humidity, has fueled the outbreak of one of the worst bat diseases in history: White Nose Syndrome (WNS).

(Hibernation season over, will disease-ridden bats emerge from caves and mines this spring?, NSF)

Growth spurts of this large seaweed are fueled by a diet of dissolved nitrogen.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)