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
Song of Travel": "0 caravan-men, we deceive ye not, we have laden the camels!
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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.
They would have laden the boat more deeply still but for Mr Brooke, who superintended at the side of the creek, while Mr Reardon was at the stores.
From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by W.B. Handforth
