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
- The tour was fraught with problems.
- The journey was fraught with difficulties.
- The voting was fraught with irregularities.
- The trials were fraught with irregularities.
- The value placed on either of these is fraught.
- The task was fraught with danger and difficulty.
- The transit was fraught with dangers and disease.
- The recording of the album was fraught with difficulty.
- The uranography of the Jews is fraught with perplexity.
- The claim is unsourced, and is fraught with uncertainty and nuance in any case.