Riddled vs Laden - What's the difference?
riddled | laden |
Damaged throughout by holes.
Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
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#* 2008 , Joan London, The Good Parents , Random House Australia, ISBN 978-1-74166-793-6,
(riddle)
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 adjectives the difference between riddled and laden
is that riddled is damaged throughout by holes while laden is weighed down with a load, burdened.As verbs the difference between riddled and laden
is that riddled is past tense of riddle while laden is past participle of lang=en.riddled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
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- They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*laden
English
Adjective
(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;.