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fraught
[frawt]
adjective
full of, accompanied by, or involving something specified, usually something unpleasant (often followed bywith ): her pain-fraught body; a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
a task fraught with danger;
her pain-fraught body;
emotionally fraught lyrics;
a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
characterized by or causing tension or stress: We are living in fraught times.
He has always been overweight, so his relationship with food is fraught.
We are living in fraught times.
Archaic.filled or laden.
ships fraught with precious wares.
noun
Scot.a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
fraught
/ ڰɔː /
adjective
filled or charged; attended
a venture fraught with peril
informalshowing or producing tension or anxiety
she looks rather fraught
a fraught situation
archaicfreighted
noun
an obsolete word for freight
Other Word Forms
- overfraught adjective
- unfraught adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fraught1
Example Sentences
Seed only began exploring the true breadth and emotion of her mother’s legacy when she herself reached the age that her mom died, a milestone fraught for many grown, parentless children.
"The nature of our relationship is so fraught right now that this case makes us all wonder, what about our relatives who are working in the States?" he said in a statement to CBC.
The new book’s mostly-pictures-with-some-words approach is a return to Brown’s earlier work when he was creating charming fables for toddlers about our sometimes fraught, sometimes empathetic attitude toward nature.
Such an approach, Schake said, was fraught with more than legal risk.
Like multiple street vendors, this trio helped nourish the city during a fraught weekend that saw more than 70 arrests, widespread vandalism and cars set ablaze.
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