2 carrying something: --
3 having a lot of something, especially something unpleasant such as debt: --
4 used in adjectives to show that something has or is carrying a lot of something: --
5 a ship that is laden in bulk is carrying goods loose, not in containers (= very large metal boxes) --
Our mentality is still too correct, our theatrical norm too laden with an aura of darkened mystification.
Sections of liver, spleen, lymph nodes and brain failed to show any evidence of cells laden with glycogen.
Even more secular forms of address, such as the mirror of princes, were heavily laden with religious content.
The tegument is a syncytial stratum, laden with membrane-bound, electron-lucid and electron-dense vesicles, mitochondria, ribosomes and smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
This paper argues that a more balanced approach to policy analysis is to recognise that goals such as efficiency are similarly value laden.
The regime argued that the period in question was ' too close ' to the present and still laden with fierce emotions and subjectivity.
The party was heavily laden with books and scientific instruments.
A microbiological ecosystem occurs whereby crystallized salt, lying in near-saturated salt water, is laden with microbial activity.