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FRAUGHT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with or attended with
Example:
a silence pregnant with suspense
Synonyms:
fraught; pregnant
Classified under:
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by distress
Example:
a fraught mother-daughter relationship
Classified under:
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Context examples:
The topic is fraught with such danger to the bonnet, that Miss Lavinia gives another little scream, and begs me to understand that Dora is only to be looked at, and on no account to be touched.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The remembrance of that life is fraught with so much pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope, that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I was doomed to lead it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The feeling with which I used to watch the tramps, as they came into the town on those wet evenings, at dusk, and limped past, with their bundles drooping over their shoulders at the ends of sticks, came freshly back to me; fraught, as then, with the smell of damp earth, and wet leaves and briar, and the sensation of the very airs that blew upon me in my own toilsome journey.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
