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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(American spelling) (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel.
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.
Use fueling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fueling means (American spelling) (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of fuel.
Common synonyms include refueling.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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