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fraught

[frawt]
–adjective
1. Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
–noun
2. Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
3. fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < MD or MLG vracht freight money, freight; cf. OHG frēht earnings, OE ǣht possession
fraught   (frôt)   
adj.  
  1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.
  2. Marked by or causing distress; emotional: "an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship" (Francesca Simon).
n.   Scots
Freight; cargo.

[Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo; see freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Indo-European roots).]

Fraught

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

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

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.

fraught 
c.1300, "laden" (of vessels), from M.E. fraughten "to load (a ship) with cargo," from fraght "cargo, lading of a ship," var. of freight, infl. by M.Du. vrachten "to load or furnish with cargo," from P.Gmc. *fra-aihtiz (see freight). Figurative sense is first attested 1576.
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