If someone or something is laden with a lot of heavy things, they are holding or carrying them.
[literary]
I came home laden with cardboard boxes. [+ with]
The following summer the peach tree was laden with fruit.
...heavily-laden mules.
Synonyms: loaded, burdened, hampered, weighted More Synonyms of laden
2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVEwith noun]
If you describe a person or thing as laden with something, particularly something bad, you mean that they have a lot of it.
We're so laden with guilt.
Many of their heavy industries are laden with debt.
-laden
(-leɪdən)
combining form [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
-laden combines with nouns to form adjectives which indicate that something has a lot of a particular thing or quality.
...a fat-laden meal.
...smoke-laden air.
...a technology-laden military.
laden in British English
(ˈleɪdən)
verb
1. a past participle of lade1
adjective
2.
weighed down with a load; loaded
3.
encumbered; burdened
laden in American English1
(ˈleɪdən)
adjective
1.
loaded
2.
burdened; afflicted
laden with sorrow
laden in American English2
(ˈleɪdən)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
Rare
lade
-laden in American English
(ˈleɪdən)
filled, covered, permeated, or burdened with
flower-laden, metaphor-laden, doom-laden
Examples of 'laden' in a sentence
laden
It is less laden with debt.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There are afternoon treats too with heavily laden cake stands.
The Sun (2012)
Cut out low branches that would lie on the ground when laden with fruit.
The Sun (2012)
But a few who are still laden with debt will be forced to downsize.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Support any heavily laden plum tree branches.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Holly trees and hedges are heavily laden with their scarlet berries this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Now they are laden with debt.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It was laden with bad debts.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Not advisable for heavily laden commuters.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The house was always open for the entire family and she kept a trolley set up for guests laden with fruits and snacks.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Fine weather has left the trees laden with fruit, which the monks turn into cider.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is often laden with heavy feelings because you can't help but liking some people for what they do for you.
Christianity Today (2000)
The Portuguese driver of the truck laden with fruit juice was being quizzed by police last night on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
The Sun (2008)
You often see freight trains composed of 20 or 30 fully laden wagons.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The British Government therefore dispatched a ship laden with onion.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They were to man small boats laden with explosives, deployed to meet American amphibious landings.
Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)
And of course they had sent up a reserve, fully laden Vulcan bomber with an equally competent crew.
Admiral Sandy Woodward, With Patrick Robinson ONE HUNDRED DAYS (2003)
Once the human merchandise had been sold in the Americas, the ships returned laden with sugar and tobacco.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Ships laden with wheat would stream outwards, and ships laden with the equipment and stores which Russia so greatly needs would stream inwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
After the first visit, I came home laden with flats and pots and cardboard boxes.
Eddison, Sydney A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden (1990)
Regardless of mileage, a diesel is your best bet, as the extra torque helps to push your fully laden vehicle through the air.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And I do: the bathroom shelves at home are laden with lotions and potions at various stages of the testing process.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In other languages
laden
British English: laden ADJECTIVE
If someone or something is laden with a lot of heavy things, they are holding or carrying them.
I came home laden with cardboard boxes.
American English: laden
Brazilian Portuguese: repleto
Chinese: 装满的
European Spanish: cargado
French: chargé
German: beladen
Italian: carico
Japanese: 積んだ
Korean: 잔뜩 실은
European Portuguese: repleto
Latin American Spanish: cargado
All related terms of 'laden'
lade
to put cargo or freight on board (a ship, etc) or (of a ship, etc) to take on cargo or freight
bin Laden
Osama ( əʊˈsɑːmə ). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network : presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
debt-laden
having large debts
doom-laden
conveying a sense of disaster and tragedy
heavy-laden
carrying a heavy load
theory-laden
(of an expression ) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego , which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation