fraught
11fraught — early 14c., laden (of vessels), pp. of M.E. fraughten to load (a ship) with cargo, from fraght cargo, lading of a ship (early 13c.), variant of freight; influenced by M.Du. vrachten to load or furnish with cargo, from P.Gmc. *fra aihtiz (see… …
12fraught — [adj] full of abounding, attended, bristling, charged, filled, heavy, laden, replete, stuffed; concepts 483,771 Ant. empty …
13fraught — adjective 1 an activity or situation that is fraught is full of problems and is very difficult to deal with: After the argument, relations between them were fraught. | fraught with problems/difficulties/danger: Any program of sudden change is… …
14fraught — /frɔt / (say frawt) adjective 1. complicated by various difficulties and uncertainties: the situation is fraught. 2. Colloquial upset; anxious; tense: to be feeling fraught. 3. Obsolete filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.… …
15fraught — adj. (cannot stand alone) fraught with (the situation was fraught with danger) * * * [frɔːt] (cannot stand alone) fraught with (the situation was fraught with danger) …
16fraught — [[t]frɔ͟ːt[/t]] 1) ADJ: v link ADJ with n If a situation or action is fraught with problems or risks, it is filled with them. The earliest operations employing this technique were fraught with dangers. 2) ADJ GRADED If you say that a situation or …
17fraught — UK [frɔːt] / US [frɔt] adjective 1) a) very worried and with a lot of problems Sophie sounded a bit fraught on the phone. b) British used about situations The meeting was a bit fraught. 2) full of problems, difficulties, or things that are… …
18fraught — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, freight, load, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish load, cargo II. transitive verb (fraughted or fraught; fraughting) Etymology: Middle English …
19fraught — /frawt/, adj. 1. fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger. 2. Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares. n. 3. Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship). [1300 50; ME < MD or MLG vracht… …
20fraught — [14] Fraught and freight [15] are related, and share the underlying meaning ‘load’. But whereas freight has stayed close to its semantic roots, fraught, which started out as ‘laden’, has moved on via ‘supplied or filled with something’ to… …
