Definition of fraught

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fraught    (frôt) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

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).

NOUN:
Scots

Freight; cargo.

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ETYMOLOGY:
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)