fraught
The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargoThe hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
» Her pregnancy was fraught with complications.
Meaning
6 senses(also, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
(also, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
fraught money
(also, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
(also, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)A ship's cargo; freight, lading.
(also, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)Two bucketfuls.
(also, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable, usually)A burden, a load.
Examples
8 sentencesHer pregnancy was fraught with complications.
The expedition was fraught with disaster.
ruПоход обернулся катастрофой. — Ooneykcall
The journey was fraught with difficulties.
Landing on the lunar surface is a complex maneuver fraught with challenges.
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
deGib Worte deinem Schmerz. Grimm, der nicht spricht, presst das beladene Herz, bis dass es bricht! — Esperantostern
Origin
From Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by watFrom Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by water); charge for such transport; facilities for such transport; cargo or passengers of a ship; ballast of a ship; goods in general; (figurative) burden; charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“cargo, freight; charge for transport of goods”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz, from *fra- (intensifying prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“acquisition; possessions, property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). Doublet of freight.
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Forms
plural: fraughts| Singular | fraught |
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uncountable
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable