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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRAUGHT, a. fraut.
1. Laden; loaded; charged; as a vessel richly fraught with goods from India. This sense is used in poetry; but in common business, freighted only is used.
2. Filled; stored; full; as a scheme fraught with mischief; the scriptures are fraught with excellent precepts.
FRAUGHT, n. A freight; a cargo. [Not now used.]
FRAUGHT, v.t. To load; to fill; to crowd. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, pregnant]

Merriam Webster's

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 fraughten, from ¹fraught Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish load, freight III. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from past participle of fraughten Date: 14th century 1. archaic a. laden b. well supplied or provided 2. full of or accompanied by something specified — used with with <a situation fraught with danger> 3. causing or characterized by emotional distress or tension ; uneasy <a fraught relationship>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (foll. by with) filled or attended with (fraught with danger). 2 colloq. causing or affected by great anxiety or distress. Etymology: ME, past part. of obs. fraught (v.) load with cargo f. MDu. vrachten f. vracht FREIGHT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fraught 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. 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. ADJ: v-link ADJ with n 2. If you say that a situation or action is fraught, you mean that it is worrying or difficult. It has been a somewhat fraught day. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Filled, stored, freighted, laden, charged, abounding, pregnant, big.

Moby Thesaurus

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