Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.
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).]
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.