Discharge and Load

Discharge

Discharge verb - To empty or rid of cargo.
Usage example: docks for discharging containerships

Load is an antonym for discharge in topics: pay, unload, set free, pour forth, dismiss from responsibility.

Load

Load verb - To place a weight or burden on.
Usage example: students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work

Discharge is an antonym for load.

Nearby Words: loaded, loading, loader, loadable

How words are described

full full discharge full load
certain certain discharge certain load
single single discharge single load
real real discharge real load
Other adjectives: massive, big, huge, absolute, static, literal, neural.

Common collocations

magazine discharge magazine load magazine
weapon discharge weapon load weapon
cargo discharge cargo load cargo
gun discharge gun load gun
Other words: rounds, shells, bullets, weapons, guns.

Both words in one sentence

  • Impromptu Tracheotomy In Sharpe's Rifles, being charged by a mounted French Trooper and not having time to load his rifle properly, Harper opts to discharge his ramrod along with the ball.
  • Website / Acts of Gord Gord had planned to rig up a load of capacitors that would discharge 50000 volts of electricity, in the same manner as a taser, into the N64 that was unfortunate enough to run it, destroying it from the inside.
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