unload

IPA: ʌnɫˈoʊd

verb

  • (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
  • (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
  • (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
  • (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express; to unburden oneself of.
  • (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
  • (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
  • (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
  • (transitive, aviation) To reduce the vertical load factor on (an airplane's wing or other lifting surface), typically by pitching downwards toward the ground to decrease angle of attack and reduce the amount of lift generated.
  • (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
  • (transitive, slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice.
  • (transitive) To remove the charge from.
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Examples of "unload" in Sentences

  • We had watched both the wheel and the starfish "unload" at the way station.
  • ` ` You get tired of saying that, but we have to unload from the point, '' he said.
  • The evidently New York word "unload" revealed him to his hearer as by a flash, though she had never heard it before.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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