fraught

IPA: frˈɔt

noun

  • (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
  • (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
  • (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
  • (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
  • (Scotland) A load; a burden.
  • (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).

verb

  • (transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.

adjective

  • (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
  • (figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
  • (with with) Furnished, equipped.
  • Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
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Examples of "fraught" in Sentences

  • Every aspect of my relationship with this country's largest telco in fraught at the moment.
  • In fact, so peril-fraught is cyberspace indeed that I must never permit my pristine browser to trespass there.
  • Several phone calls fraught with irritation and worry followed before Mr. Bill's undisclosed location was disclosed.
  • As a consumer of books, sometimes in fraught times the “comfort reads” e.g. books by familiar authors, offer just that.
  • COOPER: Occupation is certainly a term fraught with -- with political difficulties and -- and -- and social difficulties here.
  • When asked for her take on feminism, Beardsley tells the Reader's Michael Miner, "That's such a word fraught with interpretation and meaning."
  • I do not know the meaning of the word fraught, but it is frequently used in history in that connection, and I throw it in, believing that it is a pretty good word.
  • Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel.
  • As she sought to defend herself and seize control of a debate that has been boiling for days, Ms. Palin awakened a new controversy by invoking a phrase fraught with religious symbolism about the false accusation used by anti-Semites of Jews murdering Christian children.

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