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fraught
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f???t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- (US) IPA(key): /f??t/, /f??t/
- Homophone: frot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English fraught, freght, from Middle Dutch vracht or Middle Low German vracht (“freight money”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possession”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“to possess”). Cognate with Old High German fr?ht (“earnings”), Old English ?ht (“owndom”), and a doublet of freight. More at for-, own. Adjective from Middle English, passive participle of the verb fraughten, from Middle Dutch vrachten.
Noun
fraught (usually uncountable, plural fraughts)
- (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
- (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
- fraught money.
- (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
- (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
- (Scotland) A load; a burden.
- (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
Derived terms
- fraught-free
Related terms
- freight
Etymology 2
From Middle English fraughten, fraghten, freghten, from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten, from the noun (see above).
Verb
fraught (third-person singular simple present fraughts, present participle fraughting, simple past and past participle fraughted)
- (transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo of a vessel.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Adjective
fraught (comparative more fraught, superlative most fraught)
- (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
- (figuratively, with with) Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
- a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
- a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Epidemic Whims
- enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 236d.
- […] all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
- (with with) Furnished, equipped.
- Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
- a fraught relationship; a fraught process
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “fraught”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fraught”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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disturbing
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?t??b??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)b??
Adjective
disturbing (comparative more disturbing, superlative most disturbing)
- Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
Translations
Verb
disturbing
- present participle of disturb
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