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LADEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Burdened psychologically or mentally
Example:
oppressed by a sense of failure
Synonyms:
laden; oppressed
Classified under:
Similar:
burdened (bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Filled with a great quantity
Example:
'ladened' is not current usage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they laden ... he / she / it ladens
Past simple: ladened
Past participle: ladened
-ing form: ladening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fill or place a load on
Example:
load the truck with hay
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "laden" is one way to...):
fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "laden"):
load down; pack (load with a pack)
bomb up (load an aircraft with bombs)
overcharge; overload; surcharge (place too much a load on)
reload (place a new load on)
stack (load or cover with stacks)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
Sentence example:
They laden the cart with boxes
Sense 2
Meaning:
Remove with or as if with a ladle
Example:
ladle the water out of the bowl
Synonyms:
lade; laden; ladle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "laden" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "laden"):
slop (ladle clumsily)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples:
I see trees laden with ripening fruit.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We shifted our position from among the tick-laden bushes until we came to a small clearing thickly surrounded by trees upon all sides.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A rare neurofibroma characterized by the presence of melanin-laden cells and the absence of atypia.
(Melanotic Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)
A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When she saw my face at the window she threw herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace:—Monster, give me my child!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Since scientists first determined that atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower during ice ages than during warm phases, they have looked at why, theorizing that it may be a function of ocean circulation, sea ice, iron-laden dust or temperature.
(Why atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower during ice ages, National Science Foundation)
Plumes of the warm, mineral-laden water gush from the seafloor and travel upward, thinning the moon's ice shell from beneath to only half a mile to 3 miles (1 to 5 kilometers) at the south pole. (The average global thickness of the ice is thought to be about 12 to 16 miles, or 20 to 25 kilometers.) And this same water is then expelled into space through fractures in the ice.
(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)
Research in the Niassa National Reserve reveals that by using specialised calls to communicate and cooperate with each other, people and wild birds can significantly increase their chances of locating vital sources of calorie-laden food.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
