Laded

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have completed the process of loading items onto a conveyance
2. Carried cargo or goods onto a vehicle or container in the past
3. Placed objects or materials onto transport or storage in a previous action

Etymology: "Laded" is the past tense and past participle of "lade," a verb meaning to load cargo or goods onto a vessel or vehicle. Its ancestry runs back to Old English "hladan" and "hleadan," which meant to load, and further to a Proto-Germanic root meaning the same thing. The verb's earliest English forms appear in Middle English as "laden," and the word has long been tied to the idea of carrying weight, a sense that persists in the adjective "laden," meaning burdened. A second, separate source feeds the word too. Old English "lād" meant a way or course, a sense that survives in the noun "lode" and in "lead," meaning to conduct or guide. The two strands are related but distinct, so "lade" carries both the physical act of loading and an older notion of directing a course.

Synonyms: loaded, burdened, filled, packed, charged

Antonyms: unloaded, emptied, released, discharged, dropped