Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. A past participle of lade.
- adj. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those thousands of miles of western sea” ( Hilaire Belloc).
- adj. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Past participle of lade.
Wiktionary
- adj. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
- adj. Heavy.
- adj. Oppressed.
- adj. chemistry : In the form of adsorbate or adduct.
- v. Past participle of lade
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Loaded; freighted; burdened.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. burdened psychologically or mentally
- adj. filled with a great quantity
- v. fill or place a load on
- v. remove with or as if with a ladle
Etymologies
- See lade. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If Osama bin laden is alive he must be cracking up over the stupidity being shown by the teapartiers.”
Think Progress » Once again, conservatives see Muslim conspiracy in an administration logo.
“Americans (and brits) need to remember that Osama Bin laden is a Saudi and that 15 of the 19 hijackers that attacked the WTC were Saudi.”
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“Abandon Iraq (even though we are finally making progress – yes political progress and security) and focus on 7 year old information telling us that Osama bin laden is still in Afghanistan.”
“May 20th, 2008 11: 50 am ET there will be no "healing" of the democratic party to propel obama bin laden into the white house. i am a yellow dog democrat and come from a lomg line of them. obama bin laden is destroying the democratic party. i will never vote democratic again should the republicans succeed in getting him nominated. goodbye democrats turn out the light the party is over.”
“Civility" is a term laden with special meaning to those who have goals to change the governance structures of society at the international level.”
“That’s like saying that osama bin laden is not responsible for the movement he created.”
“May 19th, 2008 12: 15 pm ET and we the public question the GOP judgement concerning the fear mongering tapes of bin laden. i do not know wether bin laden is alive or dead but i do know that all the audio tapes abt bin laden are not from him but are fabricated by the GOP to scare voters until election day. yes thats the truth we will fight this fear factor until election day like you. because GOPwill be playing the false bin laden tapes until election day. we know they are all false and we will try and educate as many people as we can that this is nothing but fear mongering to win election. you played the same card last time. not this time.”
“How many times was Bin laden offered to Bill "bj" Clinton?”
“BTW – didn't mcnasty say that he knew where bin laden was during a debate?”
“It dulls the pain, eliminates nausea, and makes you hungry for a protein laden meal.”
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