Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove the load or cargo from.
- intransitive verb To discharge (cargo or a load).
- intransitive verb To relieve of something burdensome or oppressive; unburden.
- intransitive verb To give expression to (one's troubles or feelings); pour forth.
- intransitive verb To remove the charge from (a firearm).
- intransitive verb To dispose of, especially by selling in great quantity; dump.
- intransitive verb To discharge a cargo or some other burden.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take the load from; discharge of a load or cargo; disburden: as, to
unload a ship; to unload a cart. - To remove, as a cargo or burden, from a vessel, vehicle, or the like; discharge: as, to
unload freight. - Figuratively, to relieve from anything onerous or troublesome; remove and cause to cease to be burdensome.
- To withdraw the charge, as of powder and shot or ball, from: as, to
unload a gun. - To sell in large quantities, as stock; get rid of: as, to
unload shares of the A and B railway. - To go through the process of unloading; discharge a cargo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To perform the act of unloading anything.
- transitive verb To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden.
- transitive verb Hence, to relieve from anything onerous.
- transitive verb To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden.
- transitive verb To draw the charge from.
- transitive verb Brokers' Cant, U. S. To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove the load or
cargo from (a vehicle, etc.). - verb intransitive To deposit one's load or cargo.
- verb transitive, intransitive, figuratively To give vent to or express.
- verb transitive, computing To remove (something previously loaded) from
memory . - verb transitive To discharge or pour a liquid.
- verb transitive To get rid of or dispose of.
- verb transitive To deliver forcefully.
- verb transitive, slang To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb leave or unload
- verb take the load off (a container or vehicle)
Etymologies
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Examples
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` ` You get tired of saying that, but we have to unload from the point, '' he said.
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The retirement of the baby boomers, who have no other assets than a house they’ll want to unload, is going to cause the housing market to go into long term (20+ year) decline.
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Used to use skunk scent as a cover until someone pointed out that skunks don't "unload" unless threatened and that's an alarm to the deer.
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Used to use skunk scent as a cover until someone pointed out that skunks don't "unload" unless threatened and that's an alarm to the deer.
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A recent email circulated to subscribers of TownHall, Human Events, and GOP-USA invited right wingers to "display our tea bags" in Washington DC, where they will "unload" their teabags in front of media cameras.
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We had watched both the wheel and the starfish "unload" at the way station.
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We are thankful that thus far he has escaped permanent injury, although he does tell me he has bowled over a few telegraph poles and on one occasion had to "unload," when his machine was on fire and doing from sixty to seventy miles an hour.
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Gradually it became the fashion in Humboldt to "unload" redwood timber-claims on thrifty, far-seeing, visionary John Cardigan who appeared to be always in the market for any claim worth while.
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The evidently New York word "unload" revealed him to his hearer as by a flash, though she had never heard it before.
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It is a deplorable fact that the officers of certain companies occasionally "unload" undesirable securities upon their employees, and, in order to boom or create a "movement" in a certain stock, will induce the persons under their control to purchase it.
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