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fraught

  [frawt]
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–adjective
1. Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
–noun
2. Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
—Idiom
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
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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).]
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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