Crossword clues for fraught
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fraught \Fraught\ (fr[add]t), n. [OE.fraight, fraght; akin to
Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG.
fr[=e]ht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to
E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.]
A freight; a cargo. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Fraught \Fraught\, a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
A vessel of our country richly fraught.
--Shak.
A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences
of speech.
--South.
Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.
--I.
Taylor.
Fraught \Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraughting.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to deserve. See Fraught, n.] To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride
The armed ships.
--Fairfax.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "freighted, laden, loaded, stored with supplies" (of vessels); figurative use from early 15c.; past participle adjective from obsolete verb fraught "to load (a ship) with cargo," Middle English fraughten (c.1400), which always was rarer than the past participle, from noun fraught "a load, cargo, lading of a ship" (early 13c.), which is the older form of freight (n.).\n
\nThis apparently is from a North Sea Germanic source, Middle Dutch vrecht, vracht "hire for a ship, freight," or similar words in Middle Low German or Frisian, apparently originally "earnings," from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz "property, absolute possession," from *fra-, here probably intensive + *aigan "be master of, possess" (see owe (v.)). Related: Fraughtage.
Wiktionary
1 (context of a cargo-carrier English) laden. 2 (context with ''with'' English) Furnished, equipped. 3 (context figuratively with ''with'' English) loaded up, charged or accompanied. 4 distressed. n. 1 (context obsolete English) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo. 2 (context obsolete English) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight 3 (context obsolete English) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat. 4 (context obsolete English) A ship's cargo, lading or freight. 5 (context Scotland English) A load; a burden. 6 (context Scotland English) Two bucketfuls (of water). v
(context transitive obsolete except in past participle English) To load (a ship, cargo et
).
WordNet
adj. marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" [syn: fraught(p), pregnant]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "fraught".
A string of camels laden with wooden bales met him on the way, and this chance encounter seemed to Domini fraught with almost terrible possibilities.
This segment of the journey was much the same as fenestering through the Fallaways, only fraught with dangers that few pilots had ever faced.
Gingrich, the former House Speaker and Pentagon defense adviser who interacted with both Franks and Rumsfeld, described their relationship as fraught with creative tension.
The despairing farewell letter she had once written to him now became fraught with a deeper meaning, and he saw that in throwing away the imperfect rose-bud, and in looking at her as a creature akin to Sibley, he had inflicted mortal wounds on a heart that gave him only love in return.
The first, The sweetest, yet the not least fraught with pain, Clings like my living boy around my neck, Or purrs and murmurs softly at my feet!
Fraught with these acquisitions, and furnished by nature with uncommon vivacity, she despised her own sex, and courted the society of men, among whom she thought her talents might be more honourably displayed, fully confident of her own virtue and sagacity, which enabled her to set all their arts at defiance.
I have made up my mind to impart to you a project which, although fraught with misery to myself, will at least secure me your esteem.
I cannot wink at, as it may be fraught with serious results, and may do harm to both of us.
May I assume Cheryl Anne was upset because Thud failed to win the game single-handedly and ensure a Homecoming celebration fraught with significance and glistening memories?
I am therefore disposed to conclude, that although, with respect to the character of the man, the time he spent in Aberdeen can only be contemplated with pity, mingled with sorrow, still it must have been richly fraught with incidents of inconceivable value to the genius of the poet.
While we admire the poetical excellence of this poem, candour obliges us to allow, that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resistance with which it is fraught, had no just cause.
Though your grandfather would have said that the union of two patricians is fraught with peril in childbirth.
Over the years, such reasoning has inspired a prodigious and distinguished group of physicists to follow this path vigorously, but the terrain has proven to be fraught with danger, and no one has succeeded in traversing it completely.
Maximilian, that is the very thing that makes you so bold, and which renders me at once so happy and unhappy, that I frequently ask myself whether it is better for me to endure the harshness of my mother-in-law, and her blind preference for her own child, or to be, as I now am, insensible to any pleasure save such as I find in these meetings, so fraught with danger to both.
Frail fragments come as fraught dreams, and the promise of reunion and rebirth are lost, unrecognized, the redemption promised wandering a tundra alone, howling with the windyet salvation is at hand!