1 ~ with sth filled with sth unpleasant:
a situation fraught with danger / difficulty / problems
2 (especially BrE) causing or feeling worry and anxiety:
She looked / sounded fraught. * There was a fraught silence. * The atmosphere remained fraught. * Things are as fraught as ever in the office.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fraught is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fraught a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fraught is tagged as adjective.
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