lade

American  

[leyd] / leɪd /

verb (used with object)

laded, laden, laded, lading

1. to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.

2. to load oppressively; burden (used chiefly in the passive).

   laden with many responsibilities.

3. to fill or cover abundantly (used chiefly in the passive).

   trees laden with fruit; a man laden with honors.

4. to lift or throw in or out, as a fluid, with a ladle or other utensil.

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verb (used without object)

laded, laden, laded, lading

1. to take on a load.

2. to lade a liquid.

lade ¹ British  

/ leɪd /

verb

1. to put cargo or freight on board (a ship, etc) or (of a ship, etc) to take on cargo or freight

2. to burden or oppress

3. to fill or load

4. to remove (liquid) with or as if with a ladle

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lade ² British  

/ led, leɪd /

noun

1. a watercourse, esp a millstream

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Other Word Forms

• lader noun

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. ladle

Example Sentences

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

After that first drive Chawley lade 'isself down flat when 'is hemployer drove, but even in that posishun it didn't seem 'ardly safe.

From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various

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.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

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