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 Video captured the Toyota leaving before the second robbery and returning afterward, when a man resembling Sartin unloaded a bicycle, according to the affidavit. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 During Trautman’s visit in the fall of 1942, when matériel was unloaded off the coast of Australia, it was stacked on the beaches, fully exposed to the elements. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026 Mora unloaded on Summers at UTSA over a late substitution that led to an easy touchdown. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2026 Each one is pulled from its bin, cleaned and treated, loaded onto the truck, unloaded at the destination and moved around repeatedly until Hazelett is satisfied with the arrangement. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2026 Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026 No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Walter just unloaded his share in the Chelsea team of Premier League soccer. — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026 Both Republicans unloaded on Cooper's tenure as governor, with Trump blaming Cooper for a grisly North Carolina murder and accusing him of doing nothing to help the state after Hurricane Helene inflicted widespread damage in 2024. — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026

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The teacher has been discharged from the mental health facility but returns often for follow-up checks.

— Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
The person recovered and was discharged on July 4, according to WHO.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of discharged

Verb

For all the money that's been dumped into the program, that's not good enough.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
In the aftermath of allegations from Wood and then others, Manson was dumped by CAA as a client and lost acting roles in American Gods and Creepshow.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of dumped

Verb

In May of that year, Walzer and I sat in their kitchen and talked amid boxes waiting to be unpacked and paintings waiting to be hung.

— Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Leaders from Germany’s RTL Deutschland unpacked their partnership with YouTube at a Mipcom session.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of unpacked

Verb

Individual containers of food were not marked to indicate the food items to be discarded under time as public health control.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Not just dead satellites and discarded rocket stages, but millions of tiny fragments travelling at enormous relative velocities.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of discarded

Verb

This was recorded by her daughter in the USCP SUV as she was being evacuated from the Capitol.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
The Secret Service evacuated Vice President Pence, while rioters breached more barriers and began to smash through windows, kicking doors open behind them for more rioters to stream in.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of evacuated

Verb

People who would normally carry around an iPod and their mobile phone ditched their iPods for a mobile device that could combine both.

— Eric Griffith, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
With no end to the crisis in sight, investors again ditched French bonds, pushing up their yields.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of ditched

Verb

These outsiders, like executives or academics from different fields, offer crucial external perspectives, unburdened by internal assumptions or politics.

— Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
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

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