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English
Verb
misfuel (third-person singular simple present misfuels, present participle misfuelling or misfueling, simple past and past participle misfuelled or misfueled)
- To fill a vehicle with the wrong type of fuel (usually petrol for diesel)
- Misfuelling happens more than 400 times a day.[1]
- The cost of misfueling[2]
2015 September 12, Miles Brignall, “£9,000 bill for misfuelling has both driver and engine spluttering”, in The Guardian:To avoid misfuelling, diesel car owners could get a device that replaces the conventional fuel cap and prevents the petrol nozzle fitting in the tank.
References
- ^ “A costly mistake”, in The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 2005 August 27, retrieved 14 September 2011
- ^ “The cost of misfueling”, in The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 2011 May 3, retrieved 16 May 2012