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# laden

«laden» in Mova's school dictionary: **Carrying a heavy load; full of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (laden); old past participle of lade

### meaning for a pupil

1) Carrying a heavy load; full of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#m1)

2) Weighed down with a lot of something, often a worry or feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history: ships and carts laden with goods; in nature writing, trees laden with fruit or snow. In news and health, «sugar-laden» or «fat-laden» food means food with a lot of sugar or fat. Phrases: laden with, heavily laden, sugar-laden, guilt-laden.

### examples

- The ship was laden with gold and spices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x1)
- The apple tree was laden with fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x2)
- We came home laden with shopping bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x3)
- Snow-laden branches bent towards the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x4)
- Sugar-laden drinks are bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x5)
- The camels walked slowly, heavily laden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x6)
- He came back laden with guilt after the lie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x7)
- TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/#x8)

### note

Usually after a verb or with «with»: «laden with apples». Pronounced LAY-den. A little old-fashioned or literary; everyday words are «loaded», «full of». As a suffix: sugar-laden, debt-laden.

### In the corpora

- [Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2612/)
- [A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.821/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.