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   Fraught

   /frôt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable): "marketing any new product is fraught with danger" Similar full offilled withswarming withrife withthick withbristling withcharged withloaded withbrimful ofbrimming withattended byaccompanied by
   • 2. causing or affected by anxiety or stress: "there was a fraught silence" Similar anxiousworriedupsetdistraughtoverwroughtagitateddistresseddistracteddesperatefranticpanic-strickenpanic-struckpanickybeside oneselfat one's wits' endat the end of one's tetherout of one's mindinformal:stressedhassledwound upworked upin a statein a flapin a cold sweattearing one's hair outhaving kittensin a flat spinstressyOpposite calm

   Word 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.

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