Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

loaden

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: load-en
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight

Transitive verb

verb

To load a gun or pistol

Transitive verb

verb

past participle of load

Archaic

Example Sentences

"[…] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]"
"[…] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]"
"[…] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]"
"The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened.""
"Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote."
"He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough."

Etymology

From load + -en (“to make like”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *loden, hladen

Usage

Inflected Forms

loadens (present, singular) loadening (participle, present) loadened (participle, past) loadened (past)

Questions

What does loaden mean?: To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight
Where does loaden come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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