Meaning of FRAUGHT
Pronunciation: | | frot
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| Definition: | | [adj] marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship" |
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| Synonyms: | | troubled |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Fraught\ (fr[add]t), n. [OE. fraight, fraght; akin to
Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG.
fr[=e]ht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to
E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. {Freight}.]
A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Fraught\, a.
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
A vessel of our country richly fraught. --Shak.
A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences
of speech. --South.
Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I.
Taylor.
\Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fraughted} or {Fraught};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Fraughting}.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw.
frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to
deserve. See {Fraught}, n.]
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed
ships. --Fairfax.
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| Related Terms: | | anxious, attended by, burdened, charged, cumbered, distressful, distressing, encumbered, freighted, fretful, full-charged, full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, laden, loaded, nerve-racking, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, saddled, strained, stressful, supercharged, taut, taxed, tense, traumatic, trying, upsetting, weighted, weighted down |
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