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fraught

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"Filled with tension"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /fɹɔːt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted afghrtuStarts with FEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. filled with or attended with

Word origin

The verb is derived from Middle English fraughten, fraghten, freghten (“to hire (a ship, etc.) for transporting goods; to load (a ship, etc.) with cargo or passengers; to store, stow away; (figurative) to provide an ample supply of (goods, income, etc.)”), from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten, from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

Used in a sentence

  • “fraught money”
  • “VVell, goe / And bid the Merchants and my men diſpatch / And come aſhore, and ſee the fraught discharg'd.”
  • “The fraught of this Ship being concluded to be Cedar, by the diligence of the Maſter, and Captaine Smith, ſhe vvas quickly reladed: […]”

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