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

to unweight

7.2
Reduce the weight on a body part during movement
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈweɪt/
  • Specialized
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  • To improve your balance on the tightrope, you need to unweight your legs as you shift your body weight.
  • unweight your skis

Examples

  • During the yoga pose, remember to unweight your arms to avoid straining your shoulders.

  • I sometimes lift or unweight a leg when I see an obstacle on the side of the trail.

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  • In order to jump higher on the trampoline, you should unweight your feet just before taking off.

How Unloaded

to offload
5 4.2
to unweight
  • Specialized
7.2
to support
240 1.0

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

unweight = weight (transparent) = un + weight

The action 'un-' + 'weight' straightforwardly conveys reducing the load borne by a body part, following normal English negation/reversal.

Etymology

Unweight comes from un- ('take away') and weight ('load' or 'how heavy something is'). In therapy and sport it means to take the load off a leg or joint so movement is easier.