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fraught (frôt)

adjective

  1. filled, charged, or loaded (with) a life fraught with hardship
  2. 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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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