Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the fuel from.
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Examples
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Then you defuel them, service them-it takes about four hours to do that-and you can refuel them again.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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We were pleased that on Monday they agreed with the statement by the President of the Security Council calling on North Korea not to defuel in a way that the IAEA did not approve of.
Backgrounder On President Meeting With Italian Pm ITY National Archives 1994
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I think personally we will see robots made to defuel them in a year or so, after a years worth of cooling and careful monitoring.
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Work is still ongoing to defuel and decommission Chapelcross, which continues to employ hundreds of people from Dumfriesshire and north Cumbria.
News round-up 2010
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Work is still ongoing to defuel and decommission Chapelcross, which continues to employ hundreds of people from Dumfriesshire and north Cumbria.
News round-up 2010
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The fuel system equipment will handle multiple functions for the aircraft's fuel system and includes engine feed, auxiliary power unit feed, refuel and defuel, venting, scavenge, fuel quantity gauging, and integrated modular avionics fuel gauging and management software.
HEADLINES 2010
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The fuel system equipment will handle multiple functions for the aircraft's fuel system and includes engine feed, auxiliary power unit feed, refuel and defuel, venting, scavenge, fuel quantity gauging, and integrated modular avionics fuel gauging and management software.
HEADLINES 2010
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Work is still ongoing to defuel and decommission Chapelcross, which continues to employ hundreds of people from Dumfriesshire and north Cumbria.
News round-up 2010
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The fuel system equipment will handle multiple functions for the aircraft's fuel system and includes engine feed, auxiliary power unit feed, refuel and defuel, venting, scavenge, fuel quantity gauging, and integrated modular avionics fuel gauging and management software.
HEADLINES 2010
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The fuel system equipment will handle multiple functions for the aircraft's fuel system and includes engine feed, auxiliary power unit feed, refuel and defuel, venting, scavenge, fuel quantity gauging, and integrated modular avionics fuel gauging and management software.
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