loaden
verbEtymology From load + -en (“to make like”).
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Dialectal To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight
- […] 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; […]1678, John Ryther, The best friend standing at the door:
- […] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]1725, Hugh Binning, Heart Humiliation:
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- […] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]1892, Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, Commentary on the New Testament:
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Dialectal To load a gun or pistol
- The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened."1903, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine, volume 33, page 65: