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📊 To remove weighting 📦 To make lighter 🦵 To reduce load
to unweight

to unweight

7.9
Make something lighter by taking out heavy items
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈweɪt/
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  • Cyclists often unweight their bikes before a steep climb to make pedaling easier.

Examples

  • Before lifting the box, he tried to unweight it by taking out some books.

  • The movers needed to unweight the truck so it could cross the old bridge safely.

  • Please unweight the package before shipping.

  • The engineer will unweight the design to improve efficiency.

  • To make the package easier to carry, you should unweight it by taking out the heavier items.

  • The instructor advised us to unweight our knees when performing the squat to avoid injury.

  • Before sending the samples, they decided to unweight the data by removing any outliers.

Synonyms

to lighten
vsto unweight
26 2.5

To make a load or worry feel less heavy

focuses on physical removal of weight rather than emotional relief
to unlade
vsto unweight
  • Archaic
9.9

To take goods off a vehicle like a ship

is used more generally to remove weight or mass from any object

Antonyms

to weight
23 4.4

To press down with a heavy load

How Light

to lighten
26 2.5
to unweight
7.9
to unlade
  • Archaic
9.9
to strip
  • Specialized
15 6.3

Surface Forms

unweight infinitive
unweighted past
unweighted past participle
unweighting present participle
unweights third person singular

Morphology

unweight = weight (transparent) = un + weight

Productive, regular prefixation with un- giving the opposite or removal of 'weight', so meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Unweight comes from the prefix un- ('remove') and weight ('how heavy something is'), so it means to take weight away to make something lighter.