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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fraught \Fraught\ (fr[add]t), noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fraught \Fraught\, adjective 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fraught \Fraught\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun] To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fraught
adjective
1: marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
2: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" [syn: {fraught(p)}, {pregnant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "fraught": 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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