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Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
noun
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Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
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Fraught
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| unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; sure to occur, happen, or come |
| constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything; done or pursued with persevering attention |
3.
fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
Related forms
o·ver·fraught, adjective
un·fraught, adjective
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| fraught (frɔːt) | |
| —adj (and foll by with) (and foll by with) | |
| 1. | filled or charged; attended: a venture fraught with peril |
| 2. | informal showing or producing tension or anxiety: she looks rather fraught; a fraught situation |
| 3. | archaic freighted |
| —n | |
| 4. | an obsolete word for freight |
| [C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht | |
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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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