[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:
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