| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  frôt |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama. 2. Marked by or causing distress; emotional: “an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship” (Francesca Simon). | | NOUN: | Scots Freight; cargo. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo; see freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Appendix I).
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