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Meanings of unload in English

Catalan
deixar
Spanish
dejar

Leave or unload.

deixar
Portuguese
descarregar
Catalan
evacuar
Spanish
desembarcar

Take the load off (a container or vehicle)

descarregar
Usage of unload in English
1
Officials said it could take up to three days to unload everybody.
The Guardian
2
Did she unload those boxes on the way to some new town?
Exposure
3
This has been the second effort by Tiger to unload the shares.
The Irish Times
4
The school will jump at the chance to unload it right now.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
5
They unload and check it, and it is done in four hours.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
6
It had been such a relief to finally unload on someone today.
Watch them die
7
The sleighs were coming in on them faster than they could unload.
The Rules of the Game
8
I'm about to unload on them, Mr Markle told the Daily Mail.
News.com.au
9
You can unload it all in an hour without even a ripple.
All the way
10
It doesn't take them long, maybe two hours, to unload their cargo.
Dayworld Rebel
11
Why had Mason wanted to unload so much stock all at once?
The Heiresses
12
We didn't take long to unload, find the pits and get setup.
Wired
13
This I decided to be the opportune occasion to unload my stock.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
14
The mercenaries began to unload their equipment from the open belly holds.
The Reality Dysfunction
15
They wanted me to unload the rifle, leaving me empty-handed and alone.
Sea of Rust
16
They said he could unload mullet on these docks like a machine.
Shadow men
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Translations for unload
Portuguese
descarregar
Unload through the time
Unload across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common