Synonyms for load
noun
A physical burden
weight, encumbrance, carload, wagonload, hindrance, shipload, parcel, pressure, cargo, haul, incubus, lading, charge, pack, mass, payload, shipment, bale, contents, capacity, bundle, fardel, base load, peak load, heft*; see also freight 1, shipment.
Antonyms lightness*, buoyancy, weightlessness.
Responsibility
charge, obligation, trust; see duty 1.
A charge; said especially of firearms
powder, shot, clip, round, shell, projectile, powder and shot; see also ammunition.
A measure
shot, amount, part; see measurement 2, quantity.
get a load of*
have a load on*
verb
To place a load
place, arrange, stow away, store, lumber, burden, stuff, put goods in, put goods on, containerize, freight, weight, pile, heap, fill, fill up, cram, mass, ballast, lade, heap on, put aboard, stack, pour in, take on cargo, take on ballast; see also pack 1.
Antonyms unload, unpack*, take off cargo.
To overload
encumber, saddle, weigh down; see burden, oppress.
to charge; said especially of firearms
prime, ready, make ready to fire, prepare for shooting, insert a clip.
See load in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
Something carried physically:
burden1, cargo, freight, haul. (Sports) impost. See heavy, overA quantity of explosive put into a weapon:
charge. See explosion- (Informal)
An indeterminately great amount or number.
Often used in plural: jillion, million (often used in plural), multiplicity, ream, trillion. (Informal) bushel, gob1 (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), lot, oodles, passel, peck2, scad (often used in plural), slew, wad, zillion. See big
verb
To place a burden or heavy load on:
burden1, charge, cumber, encumber, freight, lade, saddle, tax, weight. See overTo make or become full; put as much into as can be held:
charge, fill, freight, heap, pack, pile. See fullTo fill to overflowing:
heap, lade, pile. See fullTo fill to excess by compressing or squeezing tightly:
cram, crowd, jam, mob, pack, stuff. (Informal) jam-pack. See full, tightenTo put (explosive material) into a weapon:
charge. See put inTo give an inaccurate view of by representing falsely or misleadingly:
belie, color, distort, falsify, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp, wrench, wrest. Idiom: give a false coloring to. See trueTo make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances:
adulterate, debase, doctor, sophisticate. See clean
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