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lad⋅en

[leyd-n]

–adjective

1.	burdened; loaded down.

–verb (used with object)

to lade.

Origin:
1585–95; lade + -en ³ , -en ¹

[leyd]

verb, lad⋅ed, lad⋅en or lad⋅ed, lad⋅ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.

2.	to load oppressively; burden (used chiefly in the passive): laden with many responsibilities.

3.	to fill or cover abundantly (used chiefly in the passive): trees laden with fruit; a man laden with honors.

4.	to lift or throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or other utensil.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to take on a load.

6.	to lade a liquid.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME laden, OE hladan to load, draw up (water); c. D laden, G laden, ON hlatha to load. Cf. ladle

Related forms:

lader, noun

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lade (lād)

v. lad·ed, lad·en (lād'n) or lad·ed, lad·ing, lades

v. tr.

1. To load with or as if with cargo.
2. To place (something) as a load for or as if for shipment.
To burden or oppress; weigh down.
To take up or remove (water) with a ladle or dipper.

v. intr.

[Middle English laden, from Old English hladan.]

lad·en (lād'n)

v. A past participle of lade.
adj.

Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those thousands of miles of western sea" (Hilaire Belloc).
Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.

Laden

Lad"en\, p. & a. Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. --Is. i. 4.

A ship laden with gold. --Shak.

Language Translation for : laden

Spanish: cargado (de),

German: beladen,

Japanese: 荷を積んだ

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