filled, charged, or loaded (with) a life fraught with hardship
emotional, tense, anxious, distressing, etc.
Etymology:
ME fraught, pp. of fraughten, to freight < MDu vrachten < vracht, a load < Gmc *fraaichtiz < *fra- (akin to for) + *aig-, to have > Goth aigan, owe
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