fraught

Meanings

1. The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
2. Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
3. The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
4. A ship's cargo; freight, lading.
5. Two bucketfuls.
6. A burden, a load.

1. To load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
2. To burden or load (someone or something).
3. Followed by with: to furnish or provide (something).
4. To hire (a vessel) to transport cargo or passengers.
5. To transport (cargo or passengers) in a vessel; to freight.
6. To form the cargo or passengers of a vessel.

1. Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
2. Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
3. Carrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing distress; distressing.
4. Followed by with: furnished, provided.

Etymology

From Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by water); charge for such transport; facilities for such transport; cargo or passengers of a ship; ballast of a ship; goods in general; (figurative) burden; charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“cargo, freight; charge for transport of goods”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz, from *fra- (intensifying prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“acquisition; possessions, property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). Doublet of freight. Cognates * Danish fragt * Old English ǣht (“livestock; property; possession; power”) * Old High German frēht (“earnings”) (modern German fracht) * Swedish frakt