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laden en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈleɪdn̩/ (colloquial)
• /ˈleɪdən/

Etymology

See lade.

Meanings

1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
   • 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. 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
2. Heavy.
   • 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. 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 13:
   • His comments were laden with deeper meaning.
3. Oppressed.
   • 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;[…]. 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
4. In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
   • Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.

Forms

Deriveds

value-laden · ladenness · theory-laden · unladen · debt-laden

Translations (24)

bg отрупан (weighed down with a load, burdened) · de belastet (weighed down with a load, burdened) · eo ŝarĝita (weighed down with a load, burdened) · fr chargé (weighed down with a load, burdened) · nl zwaar (heavy) · de beladen (weighed down with a load, burdened) · fr alourdi (weighed down with a load, burdened) · et koorem, kohustus (weighed down with a load, burdened) · nl geladen (heavy) · got 𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 (weighed down with a load, burdened) · de schwer (heavy) · no nedlastet (weighed down with a load, burdened) · pt carregado (weighed down with a load, burdened) · ca carregat (weighed down with a load, burdened) · la onustus (weighed down with a load, burdened) · mi paruparu (weighed down with a load, burdened) · bg натоварен (weighed down with a load, burdened) · ro încărcat (weighed down with a load, burdened) · et raske (heavy) · es cargado (weighed down with a load, burdened) · mi tōpaparu (weighed down with a load, burdened) · nl geladen (weighed down with a load, burdened) · es fletado (weighed down with a load, burdened) · fr chargé (heavy)

laden en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈleɪdn̩/ (colloquial)
• /ˈleɪdən/

Etymology

See lade.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of lade
   form of lade
2. (archaic, poetic) To load or charge.
   • 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. 1889, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 54, number 8, page 357:

Forms

Relateds

larboard · ballast · ladle