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[frɔːt], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- (of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable)
(e.g: marketing any new product is fraught with danger)
- causing or affected by anxiety or stress
(e.g: there was a fraught silence)
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Origin
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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
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