lade
verb (used with object)
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
have laden
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present perfectof lade.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Were he to have done otherwise, “I should have either have laden my fiction with sermons or I should have degraded my sermons into fiction.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2016
They thanked her warmly, and would have laden her with gifts of beads and coloured cloth, and such things as the Indians delighted in, but she would not take them.
From This Country of Ours by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
Impressed, the Cadi dismissed him, and would have laden him with silver, but the Dervish refused and went his rhapsodical way.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Proceeding along this coast towards the south, they fell in with two islands so abounding in seals and penguins, that they might have laden all their five ships with them in a short time.
The natives were delighted with the things we brought them, and we could have laden our boat up to the gunwale with the articles they offered in return.
From The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book by Unknown
