Definition of "overfraught" [overfraught]

• Overloaded. See overfreight, v.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "_L'Alleg. _ 124, "her grace whom" = the grace of her whom. ~surcharged~: overloaded, 'overfraught' (l."
• "Some years ago, this man at my feet, whose overfraught heart is heaving as if it would burst from his breast, and whose tears are wet upon the dress I wear, was a galley-slave in the North of Italy."
• "All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled."