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[syn: fraught(p), pregnant]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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[=e]ht[=o]n to
deserve. See Fraught, n.]
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
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Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride
The armed ships. --Fairfax.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fraught \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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fraught \Fraught\, a.
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
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A vessel of our country richly fraught. --Shak.
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A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences
of speech. --South.
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Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I.
Taylor.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fraught
adj 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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