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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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stressful
English
Etymology
From stress +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- enPR: str?s'f?l, IPA(key): /?st??sf?l/
Adjective
stressful (comparative more stressful, superlative most stressful)
- Irritating; causing stress.
- 1970, Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?
- I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.'
- 1970, Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?
Related terms
- stress
- stressed
- stressfully
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