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fraught
fraught/frɔːt $ frɒːt/ adjective [date : 1300-1400; Origin : Past participle of fraught 'to load, fill' (14-19 centuries), from Middle Dutch vracht 'load'] 1. fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc full of problems etc: ▪ Their marriage has been fraught with difficulties.
2. full of anxiety or worry SYN tense: ▪ a fraught atmosphere ▪ a fraught situation ▪ Julie sounded rather fraught.
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be fraught with danger (=involve a lot of danger) ▪ Their journey was long and fraught with danger. be fraught with difficulties (=involve a lot of them) ▪ The whole plan was fraught with difficulties. fraught with peril (=full of danger) ▪ a voyage that was fraught with peril COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB so ▪ It is this lack of codified certainty that makes a study of it so fraught with difficulty. ▪ No one had expected politics to become so fraught so early on in the post-handover political transition. ▪ This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart. NOUN situation ▪ To learn how to cope in such fraught situations and to survive can be a broadening experience. ▪ Sarah, who lived near to the Brompton Hospital, visited her father regularly although Raine's hostility complicated an already fraught situation. ▪ The police in Ajdabiya were mostly Magharba and Zuwaya, and senior officers took care in selecting men to police fraught situations. ▪ Lowell's humour - unexpected - that could take the heat out of a fraught situation. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alas! the centuries are fraught with pain, and man is burdened by fear and woe. ▪ And her reaction to her illness was, as best I can glean, fraught with fear, discouragement, and depression. ▪ And the idea of establishing another racial group in this racially fraught country is extreme. ▪ Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties. ▪ But it is said, too, that her passion brings her only a burden of pain, fraught with many sighs. ▪ Then I reminded myself that it is fraught with disappointments.
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