Don't shout at the crying child. It only adds fuel to the fire.
Source: tatoeba (19575)
Fuel
//ˈfjuːəl//
Synonyms for "fuel" (77 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
Related word relations
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More general
13 entriesat location
3 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
72 entriesShowing 16 of 72 words.
is a
3 entriesmanner of
3 entriesreceives action
2 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
149 translations across 86 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- karburant noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Arabic
1 entries- وَقُود noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Armenian
1 entries- վառելիք noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Assamese
1 entries- ইন্ধন noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yanacaq noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Bashkir
1 entries- яғыулыҡ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Basque
1 entries- erregai noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Belarusian
1 entries- па́ліва noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Bengali
2 entries- ইন্ধন noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- জ্বালানি noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Bulgarian
2 entries- го́риво noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- зареждам verb (to provide with fuel)
Burmese
1 entries- လောင်စာ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Catalan
2 entries- carburant noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- combustible noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 燃料 noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- 刺激 verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
- 加強 /加强 verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
- 激化 verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
Czech
1 entries- palivo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Danish
2 entries- brændsel noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- brændstof noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Dutch
2 entries- brandstof noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- tanken verb (to provide with fuel)
Esperanto
1 entries- brulaĵo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Estonian
1 entries- kütus noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Finnish
4 entries- käyttövoima noun (figurative: something that stimulates)
- polttoaine noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- ravinto noun (substance that provides nourishment)
- tankata verb (to provide with fuel)
French
4 entries- carburant noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- combustible noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- alimenter verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
- attiser verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
Georgian
1 entries- საწვავი noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
German
4 entries- Brennstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- Treibstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- anheizen verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
- betanken verb (to provide with fuel)
Greek
2 entries- καύσιμο noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- τροφή noun (substance that provides nourishment)
Hebrew
1 entries- דֶּלֶק noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Hindi
2 entries- इंधन noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- ईंधन noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Hungarian
2 entries- tüzelőanyag noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- üzemanyag noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Icelandic
1 entries- eldsneyti noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Ido
3 entries- fuelo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- karburanto noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- kombusteblajo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Indonesian
1 entries- bahan bakar noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Interlingua
1 entries- combustibile noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Irish
1 entries- breosla noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Italian
4 entries- carburante noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- combustibile noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- rifornimento noun (substance that provides nourishment)
- alimentare verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
Japanese
1 entries- 燃料 noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Kazakh
2 entries- жанармай noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- отын noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Khmer
2 entries- សមិន្ធន៍ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- ឥន្ធនៈ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Korean
1 entries- 연료 noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- отун noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Lao
1 entries- ເຊື້ອໄຟ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Latvian
1 entries- kurināmais noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kuras noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Macedonian
2 entries- гориво noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- огрев noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Malay
1 entries- bahan api noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഇന്ധനം noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Middle English
1 entries- fuayle noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Mongolian
1 entries- түлш noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Māori
1 entries- kora noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- sotemenî noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- brennstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- brensel noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- drivstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- brennstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- brensel noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- drivstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Odia
1 entries- ଇନ୍ଧନ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Oromo
1 entries- boba'aa noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Pali
1 entries- indhana noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Pashto
1 entries- بالڼ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Persian
1 entries- سوخت noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Brennstoff noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Polish
4 entries- paliwo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- napędzać verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
- podsycać verb (to provide with fuel)
- podsycać verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
Portuguese
4 entries- combustível noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- abastecer verb (to provide with fuel)
- atiçar verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
- incitar verb (to exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater)
Romanian
2 entries- carburant noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- combustibil noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Russian
2 entries- горю́чее noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- то́пливо noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Sanskrit
3 entries- इन्धन noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- एध noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- समिन्धन noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- connadh noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gȍrīvo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- ogrev noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- го̏рӣво noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- огрев noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Sindhi
1 entries- ٻارڻُ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Sinhalese
1 entries- ඉන්ධන noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Slovak
2 entries- palivo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- tankovať verb (to provide with fuel)
Slovene
1 entries- gorivo noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Southern Altai
1 entries- одырар неме noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Spanish
4 entries- combustible noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- lumbre noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- abastecer verb (to provide with fuel)
- repostar verb (to provide with fuel)
Sundanese
1 entries- suluh noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Swedish
1 entries- bränsle noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Tagalog
3 entries- gatong noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- pampasiklab noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- panggatong noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Tajik
2 entries- сухт noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- сӯзишворӣ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Tatar
1 entries- ягулык noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Thai
2 entries- เชื้อเพลิง noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- เชื้อไฟ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Turkish
2 entries- yakıt noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- doldurmak verb (to provide with fuel)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýag noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Ukrainian
3 entries- па́ливо noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- запра́вити verb (to provide with fuel)
- заправля́ти verb (to provide with fuel)
Urdu
1 entries- ایندھن noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Uyghur
1 entries- يېقىلغۇ noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Uzbek
1 entries- yoqilgʻi noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhiên liệu noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Volapük
1 entries- filamastöf noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Welsh
1 entries- tanwydd noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
West-Frisian
1 entries- brânstof noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Yiddish
1 entries- ברענשטאָף noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Zazaki
2 entries- veşenek noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
- veşenge noun (substance consumed to provide energy)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
The cost of flying overseas has risen with the cost of fuel.
Source: tatoeba (22201)
In the past, Fletcher Fuel was approached by Japanese companies.
Source: tatoeba (23635)
It only adds fuel to the fire.
Source: tatoeba (23885)
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