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outload

outload verb: to load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.

Verb

outload (third-person singular simple present outloads, present participle outloading, simple past and past participle outloaded)

  1. (ambitransitive, especially) to load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.
    • It was found that the Division could outload itself almost entirely with the equipment normally found in a division. This was possible either by use of equipment organic to an airborne division or like equipment.1943, United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, Q.M.C. Historical Studies, page 256
    • The division outloaded over the following three days and sailed for Pusan at mid-morning on the 15th.1961, Billy C. Mossman, United States Army in the Korean War: Ebb and Flow

Forms of outload

third-person singular presentoutloads
present participleoutloading
past participleoutloaded
pastoutloaded

Questions about outload

What does outload mean?
Outload means to load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.
What part of speech is outload?
Outload is a verb.
What is the past tense of outload?
The past tense of outload is outloaded.

Words near outload in the dictionary

  1. outliver
  2. outlivers
  3. outlives
  4. outliveth
  5. outliving
  6. outload
  7. outloaded
  8. outloading
  9. outloads
  10. outlodging
  11. outlodgings

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