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Laden vs Ridden - What's the difference?

laden | ridden |

As a noun laden

is .

As a verb ridden is

or ridden can be .

As an adjective ridden is

full of.

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 ----

    ridden

    English

    Etymology 1

    See (verb)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of.
  • Oppressed by.
    • Usage notes
    * Usually used as combining form: guilt-ridden, etc.

    Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (head)
    • English irregular past participles