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fraught
[ frawt ]
adjective
- full of, accompanied by, or involving something specified, usually something unpleasant (often followed by with ): her pain-fraught body; a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
a task fraught with danger;
her pain-fraught body;
emotionally fraught lyrics;
a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
- characterized by or causing tension or stress: We are living in fraught times.
He has always been overweight, so his relationship with food is fraught.
We are living in fraught times.
- Archaic. filled or laden:
ships fraught with precious wares.
noun
- Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
fraught
/ ´Ú°ùɔ˳٠/
adjective
- usually postpositiveand foll bywith filled or charged; attended
a venture fraught with peril
- informal.showing or producing tension or anxiety
she looks rather fraught
a fraught situation
- archaic.usually postpositiveand foll bywith freighted
noun
- an obsolete word for freight
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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- ³Ü²Ô·´Ú°ù²¹³Ü²µ³ó³Ù adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of fraught1
Example Sentences
These days are sure to be fraught and even more divisive.
To the extent the company tries to continue its therapeutic research on its own, it acknowledges that that business is fraught with costly risks.
Insiders say that relationships had been "fraught" by last autumn.
These are, as you suggest, fraught and frightening times.
There are few US presidential actions more sensitive, more fraught with peril, than when and where to use American military force.
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