Usually means: Filled with or causing stress.
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  1. fraught: Merriam-Webster
  2. fraught: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fraught: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fraught: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fraught: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fraught, fraught: Wordnik
  7. fraught: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fraught: Wiktionary
  9. fraught: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fraught: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fraught: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fraught, fraught: Dictionary.com
  13. fraught: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fraught: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fraught: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fraught: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fraught: Rhymezone
  18. fraught: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fraught: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fraught: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fraught: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fraught: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. fraught: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraught: Idioms
  2. fraught: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fraught: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fraughted as well.)

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noun:  (nautical)
noun:  The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
noun:  Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
noun:  The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
noun:  A ship's cargo; freight, lading.
noun:  (obsolete except Scotland)
noun:  Two bucketfuls.
noun:  (figurative) A burden, a load.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (nautical, obsolete) To load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
verb:  (figurative, archaic or obsolete) To burden or load (someone or something).
verb:  (figurative, archaic or obsolete) Followed by with: to furnish or provide (something).
verb:  (Scotland, nautical, obsolete) To hire (a vessel) to transport cargo or passengers.
verb:  (Scotland, nautical, obsolete) To transport (cargo or passengers) in a vessel; to freight.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo or passengers of a vessel.
adjective:  (nautical) Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
adjective:  (figurative)
adjective:  Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
adjective:  (specifically) Carrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing distress; distressing.
adjective:  Followed by with: furnished, provided.

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