lade
Americanverb (used with object)
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lades,
present (3rd person singular)
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laded,
past participle, past
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laden,
past participle
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lading
present participle
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to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
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to load oppressively; burden (used chiefly in the passive).
laden with many responsibilities.
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to fill or cover abundantly (used chiefly in the passive).
trees laden with fruit; a man laden with honors.
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to lift or throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or other utensil.
verb (used without object)
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lades,
present (3rd person singular)
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laded,
past participle, past
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laden,
past participle
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lading
present participle
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to take on a load.
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to lade a liquid.
verb
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to put cargo or freight on board (a ship, etc) or (of a ship, etc) to take on cargo or freight
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to burden or oppress
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to fill or load
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to remove (liquid) with or as if with a ladle
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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ladesimple
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ladessimple
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have ladedperfect
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have ladenperfect
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has ladedperfect
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has ladenperfect
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am ladingprogressive
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are ladingprogressive
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is ladingprogressive
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have been ladingperfect progressive
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has been ladingperfect progressive
Past
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ladedsimple
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had ladedperfect
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had ladenperfect
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was ladingprogressive
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were ladingprogressive
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had been ladingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of lade
before 900; Middle English laden, Old English hladan to load, draw up (water); cognate with Dutch laden, German laden, Old Norse hlatha to load. Cf. ladle
Example Sentences
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It also isn’t filled with the kind of bloatware that manufacturers usually lade cheap phones with in a desperate bid to offset the cost and increase the profit margin.
From The Verge ● May 7, 2019
After that, still another three to six months generally pass before price increases start to lade.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Tail like our choc- lade, sharp beak, mos’ white on ’is body.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
They do the same in regard to us, and, knowing that only two ships sail annually to Nueva España, they generally have in the Parian the quantity necessary to lade those ships.
As the citizens of Manila had no means to lade merchandise, not only the patache but the almiranta came without registers—as also did the capitana, which had to go back to port.
He expects a small present from every commander that lades salt here; and is glad to be invited aboard their ships.
From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, loads The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes winged their way wi' pleasure.
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
It led on to fastidious embroideries and jacquards on loose coats in speckled mint and sand with often-oversize or upturned collars, laded with an air of the 80s.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
But adding Kovalchuk, the high-scoring forward, laded a problem onto the Devils.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2010
Charles IX. laded several ships with them, which sank in the Rhone at Pont S. Esprit.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
She led a great grey ass betwixt two panniers, wherein she laded her marketings.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
The Chinese, attracted by the ease with which he had made that gain, laded a fine boatload of wooden noses the following year, and returned to Manila.
Another 1st or 2nd Century BC vessel was found north-west of Rome in 2023, again laden with hundreds of amphorae.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Oil storage is a mix of commercially owned tanks that sit near refineries, ships kept laden at sea and government-run strategic reserves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Conflict with neighbouring Afghanistan has also led to a stall in trade, with hundreds of trucks laden with goods sitting stuck at closed border crossings for months.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
“I wasn’t expecting an offer or anything,” Conlon said recently in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion office he has occupied for 20 years and laden with mementos soon to be boxed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Barge laden, to three arches of a bridge,
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
The data seen by Reuters is based on shipping and customs documents like bill of lading and shipping bills and collected from several customs departments, government bodies and other partners.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2023
Search warrants executed last month on Pricop’s vehicle and residence turned up logbooks, bills of lading, shipping receipts and other records coinciding with locations where the fires occurred, the affidavit said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Dermen’s name does not appear in any of the falsified bills of lading or EPA forms presented by the prosecution, although it frequently shows up in email exchanges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2020
Asked about the boxes, the crew produced a bill of lading listing the contents, in awkward English, as “assembly parts of the underwater pump.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2017
They made ready, packing their bags and lading their ponies.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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