Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈleɪdən/
laden
- Weighed down with a load, burdened.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- 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.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Heavy.
- His comments were laden with deeper meaning.
- Oppressed.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546 ↗; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860 ↗, page 0016 ↗:
- 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; […].
- (chemistry) 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.
- Past participle of lade
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