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present participle of unload
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1
to empty or rid of cargo
- the dockworkers unloaded the ship
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2
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- I can't seem to unload this old car—even the charities won't take it!
Synonyms for unloading
- cashiering,
- casting (off),
- chucking,
- deep-sixing,
- discarding,
- ditching,
- dumping,
- eighty-sixing
- (or 86ing),
- exorcising
- (also exorcizing),
- flinging (off or away),
- jettisoning,
- junking,
- laying by,
- losing,
- pitching,
- rejecting,
- scrapping,
- shedding,
- shucking (off),
- sloughing (off)
- also sluffing (off),
- throwing away,
- throwing out,
- tossing
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