descargar

/deskaɾˈɡaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to unload

📦🚚 des + cargar = un + load; cargar shares a root with cargo

Spanish des- reverses an action, like English dis- or un-. Cargar means to load, the same root as cargo, so descargar is to take the cargo off. A weapon discharges its load, and in modern Spanish a file you download is also descargado.

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