Synonyms for petrol
ˈpɛ trəlpetrol

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1. petrolnoun

   Synonyms:
   gasoline, gas

2. petrolnoun

   Petroleum, a fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.

   Synonyms:
   gasoline, gas

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1. gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrolnoun

   a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

   Synonyms:
   gun, gas pedal, accelerator pedal, gaseous state, throttle, gas, gasoline, flatulency, accelerator, flatulence, natural gas, gasolene

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1. • Fuel
   • Hydrocarbon

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1. List of paraphrases for "petrol":

   gasoline, benzine, fuel, essence, oil, gasoline-fueled, gas, yau, incendiary, petroleum

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1. Professor Martin Tangney:

   Butanol, which is our fuel, is an advanced fuel that's a four carbon alcohol, so inherently it has more energy, it has almost the same amount of energy as petrol, whereas bioethanol has only got 70 percent of it, you can store it and pipe it and use the existing infrastructure to distribute this, and in fact you do not need to modify an engine. So this is a genuine like-for-like substitution for oil or diesel - and moreover the fuel is not restricted to automobiles. It's currently being trialled in shipping industry and is a very good base unit for jet fuel.

2. Namadak Kalimapus:

   I sell all these items because there is no petrol station anywhere near here, there are no bars, and therefore this is a one-stop-shop where you buy fuel, clothes, food and drinks.

3. Deepesh Rathore:

   While we are all concerned about badly maintained vehicles causing pollution, the solution to that is to make annual vehicle health checks mandatory, if today the NGT can do this thing without any warning, any planning or any heads-up then in five years the same can be done for petrol vehicles as well.

4. Dibya Raj Paudel:

   We are not even been able to run mobile blood donation camps due to fuel shortages. We don't have petrol to run our vehicles.

5. Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan:

   Indian refineries are fully prepared to meet the national demand for petrol, diesel and other petroleum products.