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• v  leave or unload
• v  take the load off (a container or vehicle)
• a  (of weapons) not charged with ammunition
  many people are killed by guns thought to be unloaded

• Fifty-eight stranded people at nearby Lone Tree fared betterdrivers of two stalled Safeway trucks obligingly unloaded groceries and distributed them to the hungry.
• Fresh baby corn is unloaded and prepared for shipment to the UK in Kibwezi, Kenya.
• But as she set out to become an actress, America unloaded the Ugly Betty feelings and discovered the power that came from being herself.

• drop
• drop off
• set down
• put down
• unload
• discharge
• unlade
• offload

• loaded

News & Articles

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• Teen who brought unloaded gun to school gets jail time
  Jacob David Allen, the 18-year-old who brought an unloaded gun onto a school campus, has been sentenced to six months in jail, with five months and 10 days suspended, three years of unsupervised probation and ordered to undergo a behavioral counseling assessment."I...
  June 12, 2013 - The Yuma Sun
• Chicago Cubs Suspend Ian Stewart After Twitter Rant
  COMMENTARY | Regardless of the inappropriate comments Chicago Cubs' third baseman Ian Stewart recently unloaded via Twitter, it is an easy admittance that Stewart has had a tough tenure with the Cubs. And it hasn't been entirely his fault. His lacking performance -- think .164 average in Triple-A -- has been a huge contributor as to why he lost his roster spot on the major-league roster, but ...
  June 12, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Sports
• Elgin church group in Joplin to assemble house
  JOPLIN, Mo. — Break time was approaching, but Keith Duncan wanted to make one last concentrated push in order to get the large Penske truck unloaded. “Two minutes, people! Two minutes!” he yelled as the students and adults hauling large wooden sections out of the truck began picking up the pace. The boards and frames had been spray-painted and numbered to identify where they needed to go. Some ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Courier News

Quotes

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• Kyle Busch in FOXNews
  We unloaded here and we were absolutely junk,Busch said. "When we were here Friday, I just thought it was going to be a dismal weekend and I was wondering what tire barrier we were going to put it in. It was a bad feeling, but these guys...
• Michael Waltrip in SI.com
  There's been too many times when we showed up with a car that was out in left field and we had to try and get it competitive,Waltrip said. "Today we unloaded and we were competitive. That's the difference."
• Gilbert Arenas in Los Angeles Times (blog)
  Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong......there's no such thing as joking around when it comes to guns--even if unloaded,Arenas said.