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Laden vs Laced - What's the difference?

laden | laced |

As a noun laden

is .

As an adjective laced is

tainted with something, especially a drug.

As a verb laced is

(lace).

laden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Weighed down with a load, burdened.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • 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.
  • Heavy.
  • Oppressed.
  • *
    • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden , drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
  • (label) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en ----

    laced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tainted with something, especially a drug.
    • I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lace)
  • Especially of shoelaces, intertwined and neatly knotted.
    • Are your shoes laced up yet?
    The handkercheif was laced up into a neat little pillow.

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