Fraught Definition

frôt
adjective
Filled, charged, or loaded (with)
A life fraught with hardship.
Webster's New World
Emotional, tense, anxious, distressing, etc.
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(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.

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(with with) Furnished, equipped.

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noun
Freight; cargo.
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(Scotland) A load; a burden.

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(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).

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verb

(obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).

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Origin of Fraught

  • From Middle English, from Middle Dutch vracht or Middle Low German vracht (“freight money”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possession”), from Proto-Indo-European *eik'- (“to possess”). Cognate with Old High German frēht (“earnings”), Old English ǣht (“owndom”). More at for-, own.

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  • Middle English past participle of fraughten to load from fraght cargo freight and from Middle Dutch vrachten to load (from vracht freight aik- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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