OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 28390

fraught

/fɹɔːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cargado
Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
The peasant without fear shall guide / Down smooth canal or river wide / His painted bark of cane, / Fraught, for some proud bazaar's arcades, / With chestnuts from his native shad…
cargado
Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two.
[O]ne the other fiercely did encounter, / Like Lions two yfraught with boyling wrath, […]
angustiado • tenso
Carrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing distress; distressing.
Nor less her son the like encouraged she / To party bitterness, that was in her, / Ev'n of the fraughtest growth that well could be, / Surpassing most of men's, […]
a fraught relationship a fraught process