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Definition of "fraught" []

  • Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama. (adjective)
  • Marked by or causing distress; emotional: "an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship” ( Francesca Simon). (adjective)
  • Scots Freight; cargo. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fraught" in a sentence
  • "Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel."
  • "COOPER: Occupation is certainly a term fraught with -- with political difficulties and -- and -- and social difficulties here."
  • "As a consumer of books, sometimes in fraught times the “comfort reads” e.g. books by familiar authors, offer just that."