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🏚️ A strong shelter 🏌️ A sand trap ⛽ A fuel container ⛽ To refuel 🛡️ To take shelter
to bunker

to bunker

7.2
To put fuel into a ship's tank
  • verb
  • /ˈbʌŋkər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : abastecer de combustible

Examples

  • 2400 tons of commercial cargo, 200 tons of food aid 166 tons of freshwater, 250 metric tons of fuel bunkered.

    Captain Phillips (2013)

  • The crew worked diligently to bunker the ship with enough oil for the journey ahead.

  • Before setting sail, they needed to bunker the vessel to ensure it had sufficient fuel.

  • The captain ordered the team to bunker the ship before the next leg of their expedition.

Antonyms

to deplete
13 6.3

To use up almost all of something so little is left

Compounds

bunker buster
  • Specialized
3 7.9

A very strong bomb that breaks through thick concrete to explode inside underground shelters

bunker mentality
2 7.9

A defensive, isolated attitude people develop after being criticized many times

Battle of Bunker Hill
1 4.7

An early battle of the American Revolution near Boston in which the British won but suffered heavy losses

How Full

to fill up
90 1.3
to bunker
  • Specialized
7.2
to refuel
30 3.0
to top up
3 3.2

Surface Forms

bunker infinitive
bunkered past
bunkered past participle
bunkering present participle
bunkers third person singular

Etymology

Bunker as a verb meaning to refuel a ship simply comes from the noun: to 'bunker' is to fill the ship's fuel 'box' or bunker, so the action is named after the place where the fuel goes.