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LADEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laden mean? 

LADEN (adjective)
  The adjective LADEN has 2 senses:

1. filled with a great quantityplay

2. burdened psychologically or mentallyplay

  Familiarity information: LADEN used as an adjective is rare.


LADEN (verb)
  The verb LADEN has 2 senses:

1. remove with or as if with a ladleplay

2. fill or place a load onplay

  Familiarity information: LADEN used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LADEN (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with a great quantity

Synonyms:

laden; ladened; loaded

Context example:

'ladened' is not current usage

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Burdened psychologically or mentally

Synonyms:

laden; oppressed

Context example:

oppressed by a sense of failure

Similar:

burdened (bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities)


LADEN (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they laden  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it ladens  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: ladened  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: ladened  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: ladening  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove with or as if with a ladle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lade; laden; ladle

Context example:

ladle the water out of the bowl

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


Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill or place a load on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lade; laden; load; load up

Context example:

load the truck with hay

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


 Context examples 


Sir Nigel Loring lived for many years, full of honor and laden with every blessing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lipid-laden macrophages originating from monocytes or from smooth muscle cells.

(Foam Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is characterized by the presence of mononuclear cells, multinucleated osteoclast-like giant cells, hemosiderin-laden macrophages, foam cells, and an inflammatory infiltrate.

(Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells in the dermis.

(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the proliferation in the tissues of lipid-laden macrophages and the presence of multinucleated giant cells.

(Erdheim-Chester Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Benign disorder of infants and children characterized by multiple nodules with lipid-laden, non-Langerhans-cell histiocytes.

(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells forming nodules in the affected anatomic sites.

(Disseminated Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

Things that happen at an eclipse tend to be laden with meaning, and at the same time, give you a preview of your future.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In two hours the boat, which went laden with vessels of water, returned, with the captain’s command to fetch me on board.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It is composed of synovial-like mononuclear cells, hemosiderin-laden macrophages, foam cells, and inflammatory cells.

(Diffuse Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath, NCI Thesaurus)



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