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单词 fraught
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Definition of fraught in English:

fraught

adjective frɔːtfrɔt
  • 1fraught with(of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable)

    marketing any new product is fraught with danger
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Despite this apparent harmony, all attempts to engage the factions in a peace process have been fraught with difficulty.
    • Leaving accommodation to chance is a habit fraught with disappointment.
    • A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters.
    • It leaves you in limbo, in a dreadful no-man's land that is fraught with danger.
    • Creating new ventures can be fraught with danger for academics.
    • Using a bypass as a main access road for housing and industry is fraught with potential road traffic problems and dangers.
    • The journey was fraught with danger, with a cold and wet welcome for anyone who lost their grip in the icy shin-deep water.
    • His early life was fraught with danger - three of his closest advisers were murdered and an attempt was made on his own life.
    • Falling in love and getting married will be fraught with danger.
    • Any discussion about Europe is fraught with dangers and discomfort.
    • The life of a ski cameraman is fraught with danger - imagine trying to balance a camera, focus it and ski all at the same time.
    • It was always a course fraught with risk for him to do a media interview about a case over which he was still presiding.
    • Evaluations under these circumstances are rare and fraught with methodological difficulties.
    • My response is guarded and is fraught with the inherent ambiguities of the situation.
    • The road ahead is still fraught with danger for investors though.
    • The course of this journey is one fraught with self destructive and horrific events.
    • Aside from the total cost, it is an experience fraught with potential danger.
    • Alcoholics Anonymous meetings became fraught with fears that his emotional outpourings would appear in print.
    • Driving on the Continent is fraught with problems for the UK driver and particularly the company car driver.
    • The contemporary study of religion is a business fraught with dangers and perils.
    Synonyms
    full of, filled with, swarming with, rife with, thick with, bristling with, charged with, loaded with, brimful of, brimming with
  • 2Causing or affected by anxiety or stress.

    there was a fraught silence
    she sounded a bit fraught
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not a bad story for Scotland and Ireland working together on this very elaborate and, at times, highly fraught project.
    • And the more anyone concentrates on being relaxed, the more fraught they become.
    • It seems likely to make domestic life more fraught, rather than less.
    • His illness was concealed from the American public in the fraught period after the end of the First World War.
    • The use of Africa as a metaphor has a long and fraught history.
    • In Scotland, the balance between the two is often a fraught one.
    • That Christmas Eve was a particularly fraught one for both of us.
    • There are clues, for example, that her relationship with her mother was actually quite fraught.
    • Here's a reminder of just how fraught those days were at the end of January this year.
    • The first few days were rather fraught, but we've settled down now.
    • With a good helping of incomers, who are less perturbed by these kind of events, the atmosphere will be less fraught.
    • He has made a habit of emotional farewells and fraught departures.
    • After a fraught 24 hours, the family was given a week to get their affairs in order.
    • Eighteen months ago, she began writing about her childhood and her fraught relationship with her mother.
    • Will's emotional and musical journey is fraught, funny and engaging.
    • Catching a train in China is more fraught than in any other country I know.
    • Even the simple act of reading a newspaper is fraught for you.
    • The atmosphere surrounding this dispute has gradually changed from fraught to poisonous.
    • He explores the often fraught relationship between Britain and its former colony with wit and skill.
    • She describes the experience of buying with friends as fraught.
    Synonyms
    anxious, worried, upset, distraught, overwrought, agitated, distressed, distracted, desperate, frantic, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicky
    beside oneself, at one's wits' end, at the end of one's tether, out of one's mind
    informal stressed, hassled, wound up, worked up, in a state, in a flap, in a cold sweat, tearing one's hair out
    British informal having kittens, in a flat spin, stressy

Origin

Late Middle English, 'laden, equipped', past participle of obsolete fraught 'load with cargo', from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht 'ship's cargo'. Compare with freight.

  • Something fraught is now usually filled with danger or anxiety, but at first the word simply meant ‘laden’ or ‘equipped’. It comes from medieval Dutch vracht ‘ship's cargo’, source also of freight (Late Middle English).

Rhymes

abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought
 
 

Definition of fraught in US English:

fraught

adjectivefrôtfrɔt
  • 1fraught withpredicative (of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable)

    marketing any new product is fraught with danger
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Any discussion about Europe is fraught with dangers and discomfort.
    • Evaluations under these circumstances are rare and fraught with methodological difficulties.
    • Aside from the total cost, it is an experience fraught with potential danger.
    • His early life was fraught with danger - three of his closest advisers were murdered and an attempt was made on his own life.
    • The journey was fraught with danger, with a cold and wet welcome for anyone who lost their grip in the icy shin-deep water.
    • Leaving accommodation to chance is a habit fraught with disappointment.
    • It was always a course fraught with risk for him to do a media interview about a case over which he was still presiding.
    • My response is guarded and is fraught with the inherent ambiguities of the situation.
    • Creating new ventures can be fraught with danger for academics.
    • Driving on the Continent is fraught with problems for the UK driver and particularly the company car driver.
    • Despite this apparent harmony, all attempts to engage the factions in a peace process have been fraught with difficulty.
    • The contemporary study of religion is a business fraught with dangers and perils.
    • The life of a ski cameraman is fraught with danger - imagine trying to balance a camera, focus it and ski all at the same time.
    • Using a bypass as a main access road for housing and industry is fraught with potential road traffic problems and dangers.
    • Falling in love and getting married will be fraught with danger.
    • Alcoholics Anonymous meetings became fraught with fears that his emotional outpourings would appear in print.
    • The course of this journey is one fraught with self destructive and horrific events.
    • The road ahead is still fraught with danger for investors though.
    • It leaves you in limbo, in a dreadful no-man's land that is fraught with danger.
    • A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters.
    Synonyms
    full of, filled with, swarming with, rife with, thick with, bristling with, charged with, loaded with, brimful of, brimming with
  • 2Causing or affected by anxiety or stress.

    there was a fraught silence
    she sounded a bit fraught
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His illness was concealed from the American public in the fraught period after the end of the First World War.
    • Here's a reminder of just how fraught those days were at the end of January this year.
    • Catching a train in China is more fraught than in any other country I know.
    • With a good helping of incomers, who are less perturbed by these kind of events, the atmosphere will be less fraught.
    • After a fraught 24 hours, the family was given a week to get their affairs in order.
    • Will's emotional and musical journey is fraught, funny and engaging.
    • The atmosphere surrounding this dispute has gradually changed from fraught to poisonous.
    • There are clues, for example, that her relationship with her mother was actually quite fraught.
    • He has made a habit of emotional farewells and fraught departures.
    • Not a bad story for Scotland and Ireland working together on this very elaborate and, at times, highly fraught project.
    • And the more anyone concentrates on being relaxed, the more fraught they become.
    • That Christmas Eve was a particularly fraught one for both of us.
    • The first few days were rather fraught, but we've settled down now.
    • He explores the often fraught relationship between Britain and its former colony with wit and skill.
    • Even the simple act of reading a newspaper is fraught for you.
    • She describes the experience of buying with friends as fraught.
    • The use of Africa as a metaphor has a long and fraught history.
    • Eighteen months ago, she began writing about her childhood and her fraught relationship with her mother.
    • In Scotland, the balance between the two is often a fraught one.
    • It seems likely to make domestic life more fraught, rather than less.
    Synonyms
    anxious, worried, upset, distraught, overwrought, agitated, distressed, distracted, desperate, frantic, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicky

Origin

Late Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight.

 
 
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