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 Unloading began the following evening but progressed slowly, and only the fish manure and oil drums ended up being unloaded. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2026 The broader Aston Martin company unloaded a sliver of the team at a $3 billion-plus valuation about a year ago as well. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Gausman opened the following inning by getting ahead of Murakami 0-2 but followed with three straight balls, and the Sox slugger unloaded on a low fastball. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 The man driving the Ram unloaded a 2018 Lamborghini Aventador from the trailer, the complaint states. — David Goodhue august 17, Miami Herald, 17 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloaded
  1. discharged
  2. dumped
  3. unpacked
  4. discarded
  5. evacuated
  6. ditched
  7. emptied
  8. unburdened
Verb
  • Student loan forgiveness programs haven't disappeared, but the route to having your loan balances discharged looks different now.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • These systems release large amounts of hot exhaust, representing energy that can potentially be recovered rather than simply discharged.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of discharged
Verb
  • The storm dumped more than a foot of rain over parts of the state, with the highest elevations getting more than 40 inches.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The only other crime series out recently on Netflix are true-crime offerings, where a few of those are dumped out every week.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of dumped
Verb
  • Joined by Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Idina Menzel — who voice Anna, Olaf and Elsa in Frozen, respectively — Jonas unpacked what went wrong in his bid to join the movie.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
  • As the planet’s eyes settled on our Midwestern town, the weekly SportsBeat podcast unpacked all the prime issues.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of unpacked
Verb
  • According to the report the items were discarded, and the walk-in cooler could not be used until it was serviced and approved by Tarrant County Public Health.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In addition, the short-half-life isotopes tend to get discarded by the process, and there's also the need to keep the streams of pure plutonium from concentrating, or things could get very nasty.
    — David Szondy August 22, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of discarded
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  • More news Thousands were evacuated and six were hurt as the Hawk fire grew to more than 15,000 acres at the California-Nevada border.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • More than a thousand people were forced to flee from a Croatian holiday resort last week, while hundreds more were evacuated from villages in western Germany and southwest France.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of evacuated
Verb
  • The suspect ditched his bike in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood, northeast of where Interstates 105 and 110 intersect, and ran off.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The hit-and-run driver then ditched the BMW and appears to have gotten into another car to escape.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of ditched
Verb
  • Collina Strada emptied its cupboards to for its S/S ’27 collection.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • At twenty-four, the soprano ability gone, his coffers emptied by heroin and scammers, Lymon, in his addict’s senescence, spoke to a reporter from Ebony magazine; a year later, he would be found dead on his grandmother’s bathroom floor.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of emptied
Verb
  • 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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“Unloaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unloaded. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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