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laden (root: lade)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb laden has 2 senses
- laden(v = verb.contact) lade, ladle - remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of the bowl" is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
- laden(v = verb.contact) lade, load, load up - fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay" is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sample sentence:
They laden the cart with boxes
Adjective laden has 2 senses
- laden(s = adj.all) ladened, loaded - filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage"
- laden(s = adj.all) oppressed - burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"
CIDE DICTIONARY
laden, p. & a.
Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. [1913 Webster]
"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity."
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"A ship laden with gold."
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THESAURUS
laden
burdened, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, loaded, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, saddled, supercharged, taxed, weighted, weighted downROGET THESAURUS
laden
Completeness
N completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency, complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious, completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as a as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, false in one thing, false in everything, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene.
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