fraught

[ frawt ]

/ frɔt /

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adjective

Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.

noun

Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).

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fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger.

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

Related formso·ver·fraught, adjectiveun·fraught, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for fraught

fraught

/ (frɔːt) /

adjective

(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

noun

an obsolete word for freight

Word Origin for fraught

C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight

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Word Origin and History for fraught

fraught

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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