fraught
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Related to fraught: fraught with danger, fraught with peril
fraught
(frôt)adj.
1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.
2. Marked by or causing distress; emotional: "an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship" (Francesca Simon).
n. Scots
Freight; cargo.
[Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo; see freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Indo-European roots).]
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fraught
(frɔːt)adj
1. (and foll by: with) filled or charged; attended: a venture fraught with peril.
2. informal showing or producing tension or anxiety: she looks rather fraught; a fraught situation.
3. archaic (and foll by: with) freighted
n
an obsolete word for freight
[C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight]
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fraught
(frɔt)adj.
1. filled or attended (fol. by with).
2. Archaic. laden.
[1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, freight charges]
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Adj. | 1. | fraught - marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship" troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers" |
2. | fraught - filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing" |
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fraught
adjective
1. (Informal) tense, trying, difficult, distressing, tricky, emotionally charged It has been a somewhat fraught day.
2. agitated, wired (slang), anxious, distressed, tense, distracted, emotive, uptight (informal), emotionally charged, strung-up, on tenterhooks, hag-ridden She's depressed, fraught, and exhausted.
fraught with filled with, full of, charged with, accompanied by, attended by, stuffed with, laden with, heavy with, bristling with, replete with, abounding with The production has been fraught with problems.
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fraught
[frɔːt] ADJCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
fraught
[ˈfrɔːt] adj (= stressful) [situation, day] → stressant(e)
(= full) fraught with [+ difficulties, problems] → chargé(e) de; [+ danger] → plein(e) de
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
fraught
adj
fraught with difficulty → voller Schwierigkeiten; fraught with danger → gefahrvoll, voller Gefahren; fraught with tension → spannungsgeladen, voller Spannung; fraught with meaning → bedeutungsschwer
(= anxious) meeting, relationship, situation, atmosphere → gespannt; person → angespannt; time → nervenaufreibend
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fraught
[frɔːt] adj (tense) → teso/athe situation is rather fraught → la situazione è un po' tesa
fraught with → pieno/a or carico/a di
fraught with danger → pieno/a di pericoli
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