fraught

[fraught]

Fraught means filled with something often something bad. Your Thanksgiving was fraught with awkward moments when your family saw your blue hair, and it only got worse when you told them you'd quit law school to join the circus.

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A freight; a cargo.

Adjective S.
marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"


n.
A freight; a cargo.

a.
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.


of Fraught

n.
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.


Fraught

Fraught , n. [OE.fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. frht merit, reward; perh. from corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.] A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

Fraught

Fraught, a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
A vessel of our country richly fraught.
A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences ospeech.
Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.

Fraught

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&emac;ht&omac;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.

A freight; a cargo.

Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.

To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.

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Usage Examples

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

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Other Usage Examples

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

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