Laden

/ˈleɪdən/ · adjective

Meaning

Weighed down with a load, burdened..

Definitions by Sense

1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
2. Heavy.
3. Oppressed.
4. (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
5. past participle of lade
6. (archaic, poetic) To load or charge.

Example Sentences

The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.

His comments were laden with deeper meaning.

When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.

The grass is smoothly cut; the trees are carefully pruned; the flowers, ladening the dreamy air with their perfume, are arranged in studied groups of exquisitely blended colors.

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Word Forms

• more laden
• most laden
• ladens
• ladening
• ladened

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