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beladen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burden noun A heavy load, or a difficult responsibility or worry someone has to carry.
  • charge noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
  • fraught adj Filled with something unpleasant, especially tension, danger, or difficulty.
  • lade verb To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  • laden adj Weighed down or heavily loaded with something.
  • load verb To put a quantity of goods, cargo, or material onto or into something for transport or storage.
  • loaded adj Carrying or filled with a heavy load.

Senses

beladen is used for these senses in English:

  • charge (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
  • fraught (nautical) Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
  • fraught Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
  • lade To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  • lade To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  • laden Weighed down with a load, burdened.
  • loaded Burdened by some heavy load; packed.

burden — full definition

  1. noun A heavy load, or a difficult responsibility or worry someone has to carry.
  2. verb To load someone down, literally or figuratively, with a burden.

charge — full definition

  1. noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
  2. noun A formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.
  3. noun A sudden, forceful rush forward, especially in an attack.
  4. verb To ask someone to pay a particular amount.
  5. verb To formally accuse someone of a crime.

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