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Definition of 'laden'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • 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.
  • Heavy.
  • Oppressed.
  • *
  • 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;.
  • (label) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
  • Verb

    (head)