fraught
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fraught /frɔːt/
▶adjective
- 1 (fraught with) filled with (something undesirable).
- 2 causing or affected by anxiety or stress.
– origin ME, past part. of obs. fraught ‘load with cargo’, from MDu. vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’; cf. freight.
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