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Word: Fraught
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
frɔːt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable)
Short Definition:filled with
Examples:- marketing any new product is fraught with danger
Definition:
causing or affected by anxiety or stress
Short Definition:causing or affected by anxiety or stress
Examples:- there was a fraught silence
- she sounded a bit fraught
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