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lad·en

 (lād′n)
v.
A past participle of lade.
adj.
1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those thousands of miles of western sea" (Hilaire Belloc).
2. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.
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laden

(ˈleɪdən)
vb
a past participle of lade1
adj
1. weighed down with a load; loaded
2. encumbered; burdened
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lad•en

(ˈleɪd n)
adj.
1. burdened.
v.t.
2. to lade.
[1585–95; as adj., past participle of lade; v. perhaps formed with -en1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.laden - remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of the bowl"
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
slop - ladle clumsily; "slop the food onto the plate"
2.laden - fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"
load down, pack - load with a pack
bomb up - load an aircraft with bombs
overcharge, overload, surcharge - place too much a load on; "don't overload the car"
reload - place a new load on; "The movers reloaded the truck"
stack - load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes"
Adj.1.laden - filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage"
full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
2.laden - burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"
burdened - bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities; "she always felt burdened by the load of paper work"
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laden

adjective loaded, burdened, hampered, weighted, full, charged, taxed, oppressed, fraught, weighed down, encumbered I came home laden with cardboard boxes.
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laden

adjective
Burdened by a weighty load:
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Translations
مُحَمَّل ب
naložený
belæsset
hlaîinn
apsikrovęssunkiai prikrautas
apkrautspiekrauts

laden

[ˈleɪdn] ADJ laden withcargado de
trucks laden with armscamiones mpl cargados (hasta los topes) de armas
plates laden with foodplatos mpl hasta arriba de or repletos de comida
she was laden with shoppingiba cargando con un montón de compra
the branches were laden with fruitlas ramas estaban llenas or repletas de frutos
a report heavily laden with scientific jargonun informe con una enorme cantidad de jerga científica
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

laden

[ˈleɪdən] adj (= loaded) fully laden [truck, ship] → en pleine charge
heavily laden [truck, ship] → lourdement chargé(e)
laden with → chargé(e) deladies' man (old-fashioned) nhomme m à femmesladies' room ladies', Ladies [ˈleɪdiz] n
the ladies' room → les toilettes fpl des dames
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

laden

adj (lit, fig)beladen (with mit); bushes laden with flowersblütenschwere Büsche pl
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laden

[ˈleɪdn] adj laden (with)carico/a or caricato/a (di)
fully laden (truck, ship) → a pieno carico
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

laden

(ˈleidn) adjective
carrying a lot; heavily loaded (with). People left the shops laden with purchases; Several laden lorries turned out of the yard.
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References in classic literature ?
so asketh the load-bearing spirit; then kneeleth it down like the camel, and wanteth to be well laden.
Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden.
However, money would not fail them, provided that their galleons, laden with gold and silver from America, once entered their ports.
Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and laid asleep his industry and preparations, by a fame that he cunningly gave out: Caesar's own soldiers loved him not, and being wearied with the wars, and laden with the spoils of Gaul, would forsake him, as soon as he came into Italy.
Up the mountain were wild-orange trees, and now and then Ata would go with two or three women from the village and return laden with the green, sweet, luscious fruit.
Now the Sultan of the Indies, curious to see a young prince with such strange tastes, sent an ambassador to my father, laden with rich presents, and a warm invitation to visit his court.
This old ship had been laden with immense wealth; and, hitherto, nobody had thought of the possibility of recovering any part of it from the deep sea which was rolling and tossing it about.
A train of twenty wagons, drawn by oxen, or by four mules or horses each, and laden with merchandise, ammunition, and provisions, were disposed in two columns in the center of the party, which was equally divided into a van and a rear-guard.
At such times he would be found far off in the prairies, or up the course of some petty stream, laden with plants of all kinds.
"I don't care which of their visions comes true," Archer mused, "as long as the tunnel isn't built yet." In his senseless school-boy happiness he pictured Madame Olenska's descent from the train, his discovery of her a long way off, among the throngs of meaningless faces, her clinging to his arm as he guided her to the carriage, their slow approach to the wharf among slipping horses, laden carts, vociferating teamsters, and then the startling quiet of the ferry-boat, where they would sit side by side under the snow, in the motionless carriage, while the earth seemed to glide away under them, rolling to the other side of the sun.
To see a camel train laden with the spices of Arabia and the rare fabrics of Persia come marching through the narrow alleys of the bazaar, among porters with their burdens, money-changers, lamp-merchants, Al-naschars in the glassware business, portly cross-legged Turks smoking the famous narghili; and the crowds drifting to and fro in the fanciful costumes of the East, is a genuine revelation of the Orient.
And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobble-stones --so goes the story --to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?