About The Word Fraught
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Fraught
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What's The Definition Of Fraught?
[adj] marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fraught: troubled Related Terms | Find terms related to Fraught: anxious | attended by | burdened | charged | cumbered | distressful | distressing | encumbered | freighted | fretful | full-charged | full-fraught | hampered | heavy-laden | laden | loaded | nerve-racking | oppressed | overburdened | overcharged | overfraught | overfreighted | overladen | overloaded | overtaxed | overweighted | saddled | strained | stressful | supercharged | taut | taxed | tense | traumatic | trying | upsetting | weighted | weighted down See Also | Fraught In Webster's Dictionary \Fraught\ (fr[add]t), n. [OE. fraight, fraght; akin to
Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG.
fr[=e]ht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to
E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. {Freight}.]
A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Fraught\, a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. A vessel of our country richly fraught. --Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech. --South. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I. Taylor. \Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fraughted} or {Fraught}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fraughting}.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to deserve. See {Fraught}, n.] To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax. |
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