/ frɔːt; NAmE / adjective
1.
fraught with sth filled with sth unpleasant :
a situation fraught with danger / difficulty / problems
2.
( especially BrE ) causing or feeling worry and anxiety
SYN tense :
She looked / sounded fraught.
There was a fraught silence.
Things are as fraught as ever in the office.
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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 .