Unload

Quick meaning: Unload is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).

Meaning

(transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
2. (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
3. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express; to unburden oneself of.
4. (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
5. (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
6. (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
7. (idiomatic, ambitransitive) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.

Example Sentences

to unload a ship

to unload a camel

to unload on someone

to unload bales of hay from a truck

Word Forms

• unloads
• unloading
• unloaded

Synonyms for unload

Depending on context, synonyms include offload, foist, drop, put down, set down.

Antonyms for unload

Common opposites include load.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include set down, put down, drop, offload, discharging, dumping.

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