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load

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of LOAD

to place a weight or burden on <students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work>

Synonyms burden, encumber, freight, lade, laden, lumber, saddle, weight

Related Words clog, clutter, fill, pack; heap, mound, pile, stack; press, weigh; strain, tax; overburden, overload, overtax, surcharge; hamper, handicap; afflict, oppress

Near Antonyms alleviate, ease, lighten, relieve

Antonyms disburden, discharge, disencumber, unburden, unlade, unload

to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained <she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat>

Synonyms brim, charge, cram, heap, jam, jam-pack, load, pack, stuff

Near Antonyms lighten; deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust; bleed, draw (off); clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep

Antonyms clear, empty, evacuate, vacate, void

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