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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

scaricare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: skar-ee-kah-reh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unload/ʌnˈloʊd/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2850 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"È ora di scaricare la merce."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To remove a cargo, load, or contents from a vehicle, ship, or container.

    "The workers began to unload the shipping containers as soon as the vessel docked."
  2. 2

    To express one's troubled thoughts or feelings to someone; to unburden oneself.

    "After a stressful week at work, she needed to unload her worries to a close friend."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix 'un-' (expressing reversal or removal) combined with 'load', originating from Old English 'hlādian' meaning to load or burden. The transitive sense of removing cargo or contents developed in the late Middle English period.

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