unloaded

verb

past tense of unload
1
as in discharged
to empty or rid of cargo the dockworkers unloaded the ship

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2
as in dumped
to get rid of as useless or unwanted I can't seem to unload this old car—even the charities won't take it!

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Recent Examples of unloaded Two batters later, Seiya Suzuki unloaded a three-run home run to left field that was the difference. — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 Once unloaded, that flour went on pallets and was stored in the warehouse and then loaded on ships to be sent overseas. — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2026 As they were stopped at a red light on the Strip, a white Cadillac pulled up alongside their vehicle and a gunman unloaded his weapon. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026 Riley worked a full count and then unloaded on a 3-2 splitter that caught too much of the plate. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026 The safest approach is to store firearms unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition, with ammunition also securely stored. — Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Aug. 2026 So when the car is loaded down, the headlights will go down; when the car is unloaded, the headlights go up. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 5 Aug. 2026 At the Honolulu tuna auction, as much as 100,000 pounds of fish are unloaded every day. — NPR, 3 Aug. 2026 Continue reading … DIGITAL'S NEWS QUIZ — Who unloaded on Sophie Cunningham fans? — FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloaded
  1. discharged
  2. dumped
  3. unpacked
  4. discarded
  5. evacuated
  6. ditched
  7. emptied
  8. unburdened
Verb
  • Medical records show Allen Giller went back to the Minneapolis VA Medical Center one day after being discharged from a 72-hour hold.
    — Jennifer Mayerle, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Clancy also went to the Women & Infants Hospital in Rhode Island for treatment, but she was discharged.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of discharged
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  • Later in the month, from July 28 to 30, slow-moving thunderstorms dumped nearly 12 inches of rain over eastern New York, causing major flash flooding.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
  • During the Great Depression, milk prices collapsed and dairy farmers dumped their own product in the street to protest.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of dumped
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  • Guests can still have luggage unpacked or repacked, clothing pressed, or coffee and tea brought to the room—an old-school perk that has endured for more than a century.
    — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In a lengthy feature published Sunday, the New York Times unpacked how Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison’s aggressive spending on AI has left his company so heavily leveraged that its bonds are nearing junk ratings.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of unpacked
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  • Each of the 31 teams needed to be reoutfitted, along with every member of the athletic department staff, and the old stuff discarded.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Numerous foods were discarded and two coolers required repairs, according to the report.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of discarded
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  • Typhoon Dolphin, the most powerful cyclone to hit China this year, made landfall in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang on Sunday, with more than one million people evacuated.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
  • When the trembling decreased, the 27-year-old mother took the stairs seven stories down with her young child in her arms and evacuated the building.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of evacuated
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  • Disney then ditched the movie, offloading it to the scrappy Relativity Media — sound like a familiar trajectory?
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • For the ceremony, the bride and groom ditched their uniforms for formalwear.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of ditched
Verb
  • The refusal tier of American wealth management has emptied out.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Then the offices emptied and everyone was on the same screen.
    — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of emptied
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  • The very nature of the oral tradition, which is decidedly African and characteristically unburdened by the rules of Western record-keeping, is the spirit of its truth, even more than its detail.
    — Anne Haley, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The flip side of Salinger’s bleak depiction is a childhood full of free expression and natural development, unburdened by the power, rules, and discipline imposed by world-weary adults and those prone to power.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of unburdened

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