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beload

beload verb: to load up; charge; burden.

Verb

beload (third-person singular simple present beloads, present participle beloading, simple past and past participle beloaded)

  1. (transitive) To load up; charge; burden.
    • As for W. himself, in interpreting he always misses the important point, and in translating he avoids simplicity and aiming at scholarship and depth, he beloads the subject & makes business more difficult.1986, Sir Robert Hart, Katherine Frost Bruner, John King Fairbank, Entering China's service: Robert Hart's journals, 1854-1863
    • The purpose of the following exercises is to provide an understanding of the respective methodologies associated with sampling and measurement of suspended sediment concentration and beload discharge in streams.1996, F. Richard Hauer, Gary Anthony Lamberti, Methods in stream ecology

Forms of beload

third-person singular presentbeloads
present participlebeloading
past participlebeloaded
pastbeloaded

Origin of beload

From be- + load. Compare Old English belādian (“to excuse, absolve from an obligation, let off”, literally “to unload, discharge”).

Questions about beload

What does beload mean?
Beload means to load up; charge; burden.
What part of speech is beload?
Beload is a verb.
What is the past tense of beload?
The past tense of beload is beloaded.

Words near beload in the dictionary

  1. Belnap
  2. Belnaps
  3. belnas
  4. Belo
  5. Belo Horizonte
  6. beload
  7. beloaded
  8. beloading
  9. beloads
  10. beloathed
  11. beloatheds

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