unload

verb [I or T] (REMOVE)

/ʌnˈləʊd/

/-ˈloʊd/

Definition

C1 to remove the contents of something, especially a load of goods from a vehicle, the bullets from a gun or the film from a camera: We watched a ship unloading (sacks of flour).EmptyingRemoving and extracting

(Definition of unload verb (REMOVE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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