to load up
94
3.0
- phrasal verb
- /loʊd ʌp/
- Informal
:
cargar
- Then they loaded up their trucks and came away with an extra sixty kilograms of cargo.
And so everybody loaded up and freaking took off.
- And so everybody loaded up and freaking took off.
- It means being able to load up a dishwasher, right?
- So I was like, all right, loaded up family, we're all going.
- Take that jail and load it up with bad dudes.
- So I'm just going to probably load up the seeds in one of the packs anyway.
- The way this works is that you load up a deck of playing cards.
- So we're going to go through an example of, you know, loading up an airplane.
- All right, so let's get everything we need loaded up here.
- All right, so we are loading up once again.
- I don't know how much I need, but let's just load it up.
Examples
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Abandoning myself to the pleasure of a decision finally made, I load up on succotash, tomatoes, and beets.
Fiction book (1998) -
"I spent most of the afternoon loading up three livestock trucks.
Fiction book (2000) -
We'll load up the truck.
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So we're just loading everything up in the truck.
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All right, so we are loading up once again.
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If not, just make sure to load up on fruit throughout the day either way.
Blog text (6) -
I called Pol right away, and we loaded her up, and away we came.
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A small group of looters is loading up their minivan.
Fiction book (1998) -
Jelly is loading up a plate of food from the buffet, talking to the elderly relatives.
Fiction book (2002) -
We will load up the van with camping supplies for our trip.
Synonyms
572
1.0
To put things onto a vehicle or into a container
90
1.3
Close a hole or gap by putting material into it
To put things onto a vehicle or boat so it can carry them
Antonyms
How Full
3
3.9
16
3.2
∞
1.0
- Informal
94
3.0
3
3.2
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to fill a vehicle or container until full' is directly derivable from 'load' (to place or stack things into/on something) combined with the particle 'up', which adds a sense of completion or filling to capacity. This is a common phrasal-verb pattern that follows standard compositional logic, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb load up comes from the simple image of putting a heavy load on a cart or truck and stacking it up until the vehicle is full. That's why it now means 'to fill a vehicle or container with items'.