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present tense third-person singular of load
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1
to place a weight or burden on
- students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work
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2
to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
- she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat
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loads
noun
plural of load
Synonyms & Antonyms of loads (Entry 2 of 2)
a considerable amount
- there's no rush, since we've got loads of time left
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- abundance,
- barrel,
- basketful,
- boatload,
- bucket,
- bunch,
- bundle,
- bushel,
- carload,
- chunk,
- deal,
- dozen,
- fistful,
- gobs,
- good deal,
- heap,
- hundred,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- lot,
- mass,
- mess,
- mountain,
- much,
- multiplicity,
- myriad,
- oodles,
- pack,
- passel,
- peck,
- pile,
- plateful,
- plenitude,
- plentitude,
- plenty,
- pot,
- potful,
- profusion,
- quantity,
- raft,
- reams,
- scads,
- sheaf,
- shipload,
- sight,
- slew,
- spate,
- stack,
- store,
- ton,
- truckload,
- volume,
- wad,
- wealth,
- yard
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“Loads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loads. Accessed 17 Aug. 2022.
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