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adjective

filled, charged, or loaded (with): a life fraught with hardship
emotional, tense, anxious, distressing, etc.

Origin: 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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adjective

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).

noun
Scots

Freight; cargo.

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Origin: Middle English

Origin: , past participle of fraughten, to load

Origin: , from fraght, cargo; see freight

Origin: , and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Indo-European roots)

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