Fraught

fraught
    adj 1: marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter
           relationship"
    2: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning";
       "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with
       suspense" [syn: {fraught(p)}, {pregnant}]
    

Fraught \Fraught\, a.
   Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
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         A vessel of our country richly fraught.  --Shak.
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         A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences
         of speech.                               --South.
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         Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
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Fraught \Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fraughted} or {Fraught};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Fraughting}.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw.
   frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to
   deserve. See {Fraught}, n.]
   To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
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         Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride
         The armed ships.                         --Fairfax.
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Fraught \Fraught\ (fr[add]t), n. [OE.fraight, fraght; akin to
   Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG.
   fr[=e]ht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to
   E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. {Freight}.]
   A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] --Shak.
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38 Moby Thesaurus words for "fraught":
      anxious, attended by, burdened, charged, cumbered, distressful,
      distressing, encumbered, freighted, fretful, full-charged,
      full-fraught, hampered, heavy-laden, laden, loaded, nerve-racking,
      oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted,
      overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, saddled, strained,
      stressful, supercharged, taut, taxed, tense, traumatic, trying,
      upsetting, weighted, weighted down