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car·bu·ret

(kär′bə-rāt′, -rĕt′, -byə-)

tr.v. car·bu·ret·ed, car·bu·ret·ing, car·bu·rets or car·bu·ret·ted or car·bu·ret·ting

1. To combine or mix (a gas, for example) with volatile hydrocarbons, so as to increase available fuel energy.

2. To carburize.

A carbide: carburet of sulfur.

[From carburet, carbide, from French carbure, from Latin carbō, carbon; see carbon.]

car·bu·re′tion n.

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