offloaded
past simple and past participle ofoffload
offload
verb[T]
uk/ˌɒfˈləʊd/us/ˈɑːf.loʊd/to getridof something that you do notwantby giving it to someoneelse:
Imanagedto offload some ofouroldfurnitureontoafriendwho justboughtahouse.
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- shufflesomethingoff
- sling
- toss
- turf
Examplesofoffloaded
offloaded
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Readers must assume the burden of composing meaningful information artefacts, work otherwiseoffloadedto genres.
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The courts have thusoffloadedthe most troublesome and thorny part of the disputes while retaining the easiest part.
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The results showed that sketchingoffloadedvisuospatial working memory.
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When the train approached a station, the outgoing mail intended for the local community wasoffloadedand the incoming mail destined for communities further down the line was onloaded.
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When a ship gets into trouble, these cargoes are the first to beoffloadedand come up on to our beaches.
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I wish to put on record my opposition to the costs continuing to beoffloadedonto the farmers.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Securities are first talked up in price, thenoffloadedat a profit, and shortly afterwards the price falls rapidly.
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That, of course, does not count the damage caused by common agricultural policy food exports beingoffloadedon to world markets.
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The on-costs of a nursery are sometimes loaded and sometimesoffloaded.
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That means that for 48 hours these animals were notoffloaded, fed, watered or rested.
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The task of solving the problem cannot beoffloadedon to the citizens, who are already suffering from completely unhealthy living conditions.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Many adults have in factoffloadedtheir unhappiness on to their children and, although much is done to try to keep and support children, it is the children who suffer.
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Are they to beoffloaded, put onto transport and dispatched again to lairage, and then once again to be in transit and loaded,et cetera, all over again?
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After leaving port, his bartenders served opium-laced whiskey to his guests, who were thenoffloadedto the waiting ships.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As well as deploying by helicopters, personnel and equipment can be embarked oroffloadedvia a 268by78 ft well deck in each ship's stern.
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- swaggeringly
- swaggy
- swagman
- swagmen
- Swahili
- swain
- swallow
- swallow dive
- swallow-dive
- swallowed
- swallowed whole
- swallowing
- swallowing disorders
- swallowing-disorders
- swallow-pride
- swallowtail
- swallowtail butterfly
- swallow the bait
- swallow-the-bait
- swallow-up
- swallow up something/someone
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