unload

Verb

unload (third-person singular simple present unloads, present participle unloading, simple past and past participle unloaded)

1. (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
   • to unload a ship
   • to unload a camel

   Synonyms:

   offload, download

   Antonyms:

   load up

2. (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
   • to unload bales of hay from a truck

   Synonyms:

   offload, download

   Antonyms:

   load up

3. (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
   • Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.1998, Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
4. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To give vent to or express; to unburden oneself of.
   • to unload on someone
   • […] who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.1984, John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
5. (transitive) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
   • When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
6. (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
7. (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
8. (ambitransitive, idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
   • Practically everything I possess was left to me by an American cousin, on the condition that I took the name of Carrados. He made his fortune by an ingenious conspiracy of doctoring the crop reports and unloading favourably in consequence.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

   Synonyms:

   offload, palm off, pawn off, pass off, foist, fob off

9. (transitive) To reduce the vertical load factor on (an airplane's wing or other lifting surface), typically by pitching downwards toward the ground to decrease angle of attack and reduce the amount of lift generated.
   • Boeing's article stressed prioritizing roll control during recovery from nose-down bank upsets unless the airplane was in a stall condition; if the airplane was stalled, Boeing recommended recovering from the stall before recovering from the upset. The article described the nose-down upset recovery...1999 March 24, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.18.10.2.3 1997 Through 1998—Information and Changes Disseminated by Boeing”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Uncontrolled Descent and Collision...
10. (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
11. (slang, transitive) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice.
12. (transitive) To remove the charge from; to discharge.
    • He unloaded his revolver and put the cartridges away to be reloaded later.
    • He unloaded his revolver on the home invaders.