fraught
[frawt]
- Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
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- Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
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- fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger.
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Origin of fraught
1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
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Contemporary Examples
Due to the fraught relations between Turkey and Greece, he was safe.
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November 14, 2014
But it is their fraught emotional relationship that makes the story so explosive.
Even though we have an African-American president, the topic of race is fraught with triggers, as Ferguson shows.
A mall full of scared kids battling a lethal enemy—or just the fraught road to adulthood?
So what do I, a relative outsider to the indie game dev community, have to add to this fraught conversation?
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Historical Examples
There was infinite pathos in the tones as she repeated the words so fraught with dreadfulness.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
His mind was fraught with independence, magnanimity, and every manly virtue.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
Not only was such an act sacrilegious in its nature, but it was fraught with peril.
White FangJack London
Yet their embrace was fraught with suffering and they released one another.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
The ride had been nightmare-like, fraught every second with peril.
Raiders InvisibleDesmond Winter Hall
fraught
- (usually postpositive and foll by with) filled or charged; attendeda venture fraught with peril
- informal showing or producing tension or anxietyshe looks rather fraught; a fraught situation
- archaic (usually postpositive and foll by with) freighted
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- an obsolete word for freight
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Word Origin
C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight
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Word Origin and History for fraught
v.
early 14c., "laden" (of vessels), past participle of Middle English fraughten "to load (a ship) with cargo," from fraght "cargo, lading of a ship" (early 13c.), variant of freight; influenced by Middle Dutch vrachten "to load or furnish with cargo," from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz (see freight (n.)). Figurative sense is first attested 1570s.
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