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- DictionaryLad·en/ˈlād(ə)n/
adjective
- 1. heavily loaded or weighed down: "a tree laden with apples"
Something that is laden seems to be, or actually is, weighed down by the large amount of whatever it’s carrying: tree branches laden with fruit bend toward the ground; newspaper articles laden with technical jargon are hard to read; and sugar-laden cereal is very, very sweet.
carrying or holding a lot of something: He always comes back from France laden with presents for everyone. The table, as always, was laden with food. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Full. alive with something idiom. awash. be a rich seam to mine idiom. be riddled with something idiom. bristle. burst. congested. cramped. crowdedness.
Laden definition: burdened; loaded down.. See examples of LADEN used in a sentence.
Laden can be a verb that describes using a ladle or otherwise filling or loading something up, like a teacher who ladens students with homework. Laden can be an adjective that describes the feeling of burden or stress from all that work.
having a lot of something, especially something unpleasant such as debt: The banks are laden with bad loans. The Nasdaq index is heavily laden with technology stocks. -laden. used in adjectives to show that something has or is carrying a lot of something: debt-laden banks.
If you describe a person or thing as laden with something, particularly something bad, you mean that they have a lot of it. We're so laden with guilt. Many of their heavy industries are laden with debt.
laden (with something) (literary) full of something, especially something unpleasant. His voice was soft, yet laden with threat. Try to avoid discussing emotionally laden subjects. Definition of laden adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
Laden Definition. Loaded. Weighed down with a load; heavy. Burdened; afflicted. Laden with sorrow. (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. To load or burden. Ladened with gifts.
Laden definition: . See examples of LADEN used in a sentence.
Define laden. laden synonyms, laden pronunciation, laden translation, English dictionary definition of laden. v. A past participle of lade. adj. 1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those thousands of miles of western sea" ....
