laden
laden¹
Definition
laden (lād′'n)
adjective
- loaded
- burdened; afflicted laden with sorrow
laden²
Definition
laden (lād′'n)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
Rare lade
laden
Synonyms
laden
Usage Examples
Preposition: with
- flour: American schooner Sally, from Norfolk; laden with flour, captured by the boats of the squadron same date.
- luggage: So will holding a door open for someone who is pushing a pram or laden with luggage.
- corn: Abu ' Obeida brought 4000 beasts of burden laden with corn from Syria, which he 154 distributed himself among the famished people.
- merchandise: Two brothers celebrate the safe arrival home of their ship, laden with exotic merchandise.
- cargo: At the time of her arrest, the vessel was laden with a cargo of bananas for discharge in Germany.
- explosive: The eldest, Joe Jnr, died in 1944, aged 29, flying a plane laden with explosives.
Modifies a noun
- wagon: The decent of the laden wagon under gravity thus raised the empty wagon to the top.
- tanker: An example may be a laden tanker passing through the Dover Straits.
- donkey: Showing a woman posing beside her laden donkey, with three figures standing in the background.
- barge: At some point a winch was installed adjacent to Windsor Bridge to help drag the laden barges upstream against the current.
- cart: The large doorway at the front of the building enabled fully laden carts to enter.
- weight: Best practice is usually to limit the actual laden weight being towed to no more than 85 % of the tow car curb weight.
Modifying Another Word
- heavily: Plum Roma are looking well, heavily laden they promise a really good crop.
- richly: She was a Ship of 22 Guns, richly laden from Old Spain.
- lightly: All you have to do is select a walk and turn up, lightly laden, at the right place.
- fully: He's now fully laden with cans of beer.
- already: I watched a woman walk past a lingerie store, already laden with bags.
- so: They should not be left to drift in a world so laden with moral dangers.
Used with adjective complement
laden Quotes
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For manya rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
Browse dictionary entries near laden
- lade
- laddie
- laddering
- ladder truck
- ladder stitch
- ladder option
- ladder-back chair
- ladder
- ladanum
- lad
- -laden
- Ladies'
- ladies' room
- ladies'-tresses
- Ladin
- lading
- ladino
- ladle
- Ladoga
- ladrone
