tr.v., -ret·ed, or -ret·ted, -ret·ing, or -ret·ting, -rets, or -rets.
To combine or mix (a gas, for example) with volatile hydrocarbons, so as to increase available fuel energy.
[From carburet, carbide, from French carbure, from Latin carbō, carbon. See carbon.]
carburetion car·bu·re'tion n.
