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Definition of Fraught
1. Adjective. Marked by distress. "A fraught mother-daughter relationship"
2. Adjective. Filled with or attended with. "A silence pregnant with suspense"
Definition of Fraught
1. n. A freight; a cargo.
2. a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
3. v. t. To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
Definition of Fraught
1. Noun. (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight. ¹
5. Noun. (Scotland) A load; a burden. ¹
6. Noun. (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water). ¹
7. Verb. (transitive obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.). ¹
8. Adjective. (context: of a cargo-carrier) Laden. ¹
9. Adjective. (context: with ''with'') Furnished, equipped. ¹
10. Adjective. (figuratively with ''with'') Loaded-up, charged or accompanied. ¹
11. Adjective. Distressed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fraught
1. to load down [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraught
Literary usage of Fraught
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"In harbour, fraught with wine, which Jason's son Evenus (born of fair Hypsipyle
540 To Jason, shepherd of his people) sent. A thousand measures had he set ..."
2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... morning light More orient in that western cloud that draws O'er the blue (imminent
a radiant white, And slow descends with something heavenly fraught? ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... too austere Arow it seems fraught with holiest power, to hush In its grave
majesty JI love it now— All billows of the soul, ev'n like His voice —" The ..."
4. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1803)
"... The busy messengers of love, Incessant towards my fair one's bosom move ; But
in their way some gentle thought They meet with kind compassion fraught, ..."
5. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"She spoke not—but, so richly fraught With language aie her glance and smile,
That, when the curtain fell, I thought She had keen talking ail the и /,<'/-. ..."
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