Laden

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪdÉ™n

Origin

See lade.

Full definition of laden

Adjective

1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
• 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, 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.
2. Heavy.His comments were laden with deeper meaning.
3. Oppressed.
4. (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.

Verb

1. Past participle of lade

Anagrams

• eland, lean'd