adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be fraught with danger (= involve a lot of danger )
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Their journey was long and fraught with danger.
be fraught with difficulties (= involve a lot of them )
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The whole plan was fraught with difficulties.
fraught with peril (= full of danger )
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a voyage that was fraught with peril
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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It is this lack of codified certainty that makes a study of it so fraught with difficulty.
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No one had expected politics to become so fraught so early on in the post-handover political transition.
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This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart.
■ NOUN
situation
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To learn how to cope in such fraught situations and to survive can be a broadening experience.
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Sarah, who lived near to the Brompton Hospital, visited her father regularly although Raine's hostility complicated an already fraught situation .
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The police in Ajdabiya were mostly Magharba and Zuwaya, and senior officers took care in selecting men to police fraught situations .
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Lowell's humour - unexpected - that could take the heat out of a fraught situation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alas! the centuries are fraught with pain, and man is burdened by fear and woe.
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And her reaction to her illness was, as best I can glean, fraught with fear, discouragement, and depression.
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And the idea of establishing another racial group in this racially fraught country is extreme.
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Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.
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But it is said, too, that her passion brings her only a burden of pain, fraught with many sighs.
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Then I reminded myself that it is fraught with disappointments.