UNLOADED Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

unloaded

verb

past tense of unload

as in discharged

to empty or rid of cargo the dockworkers unloaded the ship

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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 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 The team that has looked mostly hapless at the plate the last two months unloaded eight singles, seven home runs, four doubles, two walks and, on Christmas In July Night at Progressive Field, a partridge in a pear tree. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 21 July 2026 This means cargo must be unloaded at an intermediate hub and transferred onto another vessel before reaching its destination. — Morten Johansen, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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Two of the men were subsequently discharged, while the other two men were still in hospital though their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening or life-changing, according to a later update from authorities.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
As the train caught fire, a northbound train arrived at the station and discharged its passengers.

— Ahmad Hemingway, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

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The Swannanoa River, across Highway 70 from Barker's street, rose to historic levels after Hurricane Helene dumped intense rainfall on the Appalachian region, after the area had already been hit by a storm just days before.

— Ginger Zee, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The wind whips up sewage dried to a powder that's been dumped for years onto an arid riverbed near the fishing settlement of Rehri Goth, on the outskirts of the Pakistani port city of Karachi.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026

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That physical vulnerability was also matched emotionally, as the film unpacked her relationship with her American-esque family—Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), and Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour).

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
The tragic case — which NBC’s Dateline unpacked in an episode that aired on July 31 — came to a close when Dale was found guilty and sentenced to up to 70 years in prison for her murder.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026

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In 2015, the last year fishing was allowed around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the longline fishing fleet caught and discarded more than 7,000 sharks.

— NPR, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
Russia’s answer to the Artemis program is to develop its own Russian Orbital Station, using modules from the International Space Station after it has been discarded, which would act as a gateway for lunar exploration.

— Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026

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More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from the region, including more than 250 rescued by boats from beaches in the area.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
At least 60,000 people have been evacuated from the Spokane, Washington, area as wildfires fueled by strong winds and dry conditions destroyed hundreds of buildings and knocked out power across the region, officials said.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

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That night, the teens ditched the geriatric ward together to watch Blue Hawaii in the visitors’ lounge of the hospital.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
In addition to clearing the deal, culture secretary Nandy has ditched plans to bring forward secondary legislation enabling Ofcom to examine how the Paramount-WBD deal would impact streaming services.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

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