fuel

Definition

  • noun: a material (such as coal, oil, or gas) that is burned to produce heat or power
  • noun: a material used to produce heat or power by burning
  • verb: to supply (something) with fuel
  • verb: to provide with fuel
  • often used figuratively
  • synonyms: firing, kindling, breeze

Examples

  • The controversy continues to rage, and these latest accusations will only 'add fuel to the fire'.

  • These latest scandals will provide further 'fuel' for his political opponents.

  • The criticism she has faced has only 'fueled' her determination to succeed.

Movie quotes

  • (..) the nearest source of radiation, your father's power plant in Janjira, and cocooned there for fifteen years, absorbing it's radioactive fuel to gestate, to grow. Until it hatched like a butterfly into the creature you saw today. Wait, wait, you knew about this? This thing, the whole time? (..)
    2014 Godzilla