laden

laden
    adj 1: filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with
           dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not
           current usage" [syn: {laden}, {loaded}, {ladened}]
    2: burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief";
       "oppressed by a sense of failure" [syn: {laden}, {oppressed}]
    v 1: remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of
         the bowl" [syn: {ladle}, {lade}, {laden}]
    2: fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with
       hay" [syn: {load}, {lade}, {laden}, {load up}]
    

Laden \Lad"en\, p. & a.
   Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden
   heart.
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         Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. --Is.
                                                  i. 4.
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         A ship laden with gold.                  --Shak.
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Lade \Lade\ (l[=a]d), v. t. [imp. {Laded}; p. p. {Laded},
   {Laden} (l[=a]d'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lading}.] [AS. hladan to
   heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG.
   hladan, ladan, Icel. hla[eth]a, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth.
   afhla[thorn]an. Cf. {Load}, {Ladle}, {Lathe} for turning,
   {Last} a load.]
   1. To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally
      followed by that which receives the load, as the direct
      object.
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            And they laded their asses with the corn. --Gen.
                                                  xlii. 26.
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   2. To throw in or out, with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to
      lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.
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            And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
            Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. --Shak.
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   3. (Plate Glass Manuf.) To transfer (the molten glass) from
      the pot to the forming table.
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25 Moby Thesaurus words for "laden":
      burdened, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted,
      full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, loaded,
      oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted,
      overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, saddled,
      supercharged, taxed, weighted, weighted down