Laden
['leɪd(ə)n] or ['ledn]
Definition
(adj.) burdened psychologically or mentally; 'laden with grief'; 'oppressed by a sense of failure' .
(adj.) filled with a great quantity; 'a tray loaded with dishes'; 'table laden with food'; '`ladened' is not current usage' .
Editor: Ozzie--From WordNet
Definition
(p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.
Checked by Eugene
Examples
- Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with lost souls from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But having turned its back upon the present, it has no way of returning to it laden with the spoils of the past. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I see trees laden with ripening fruit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She was still superintending the lading of the cart, when a gentleman entered the yard and approached her ere she was aware of his presence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was no bill of lading. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with lost souls from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But having turned its back upon the present, it has no way of returning to it laden with the spoils of the past. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I see trees laden with ripening fruit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Rosalind