fraught

UK: /ˈfrɔːt/ US: /frɔt/ ,(frôt)

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fraught /frɔt/   adj. [be + ~ + with]

1. filled with;
   accompanied by:
   a scheme (that is) fraught with danger.

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fraught  (frôt), adj. 

1. Idioms fraught with, full of;
   accompanied by;
   involving:
   a task fraught with danger.
2. [Archaic.] filled or laden (with):
   ships fraught with precious wares.

n. 

3. Scottish Terms a load;
   cargo;
   freight (of a ship).

• Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
• Middle English 1300–50

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fraught / frɔːt/ adjective

1. (usually postpositive) and followed by with: filled or charged; attended: a venture fraught with peril
2. showing or producing tension or anxiety

noun

1. an obsolete word for freight

Etymology: 14th Century: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight