Loaden vs Laden - What's the difference?
loaden | laden |
(archaic)
* {{quote-book, year=1638, author=, title=Old English Plays, Vol. I, chapter=The Martyr'd Souldier, edition=
, passage=Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1665, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough. }}
Weighed down with a load, burdened.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
Heavy.
Oppressed.
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(label) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
As verbs the difference between loaden and laden
is that loaden is past participle of load while laden is past participle of lang=en.As an adjective laden is
weighed down with a load, burdened.loaden
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(en adjective)- 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.
- 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;.