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UK
/lˈeɪdən/
]
[ US /ˈɫeɪdən/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪdən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
burdened psychologically or mentally
laden with grief
oppressed by a sense of failure -
filled with a great quantity
a tray loaded with dishes
`ladened' is not current usage
table laden with food
VERB
-
remove with or as if with a ladle
ladle the water out of the bowl -
fill or place a load on
load a car
load the truck with hay
How To Use laden In A Sentence
- The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. Honeybees in Danger
- At least, it is almost certain that its principal industries were the smelting and the sale of gold, also it seems probable that expeditions travelling by sea and land would have occupied quite three years of time in reaching it from Jerusalem and returning thither laden with the gold and precious stones, the ivory and the almug trees (1 Kings x.). Elissa
- When President Obama or Secretary Clinton lauds “smart power” as a self-sufficient counter to Islamofascism, Red Chinese hegemonism or Russian truculence, he (or she) implicitly claims the ability to consistently outwit Osama bin-Laden, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin. European Union
- captainpoco: Overladen or overloaded, not overladed. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- This is a Dutch lugger from Samarcand, laden with raisins and fig-paste and lichi nuts and cream dates. The Merryweathers
- According to a police spokesman, the driver lost control of the vehicle after his tar-laden trailer began fishtailing.
- In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
- His main task will be to ensure that the debt-laden country passes an unpopular bailout plan before elections in February. Times, Sunday Times
- As described in Section 1.6, the constructive empiricist argues that one can make sense of the observable/unobservable distinction, even if observation is theory-laden. Beyond the Voice
- Osama bin Laden is said to be a Wahhabi Muslim