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• fraught with danger —    An activity or situation that is fraught with danger is full of risks or serious difficulties.     His journey across the mountains was fraught with danger …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• fraught with — full of (something bad or unwanted) The situation was fraught with danger. [=very dangerous] The paper was poorly researched and fraught with errors. • • • Main Entry: ↑fraught …   Useful english dictionary

• fraught — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, freight, load, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish load, cargo II. transitive verb (fraughted or fraught; fraughting) Etymology: Middle English …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fraught — adj. (cannot stand alone) fraught with (the situation was fraught with danger) * * * [frɔːt] (cannot stand alone) fraught with (the situation was fraught with danger) …   Combinatory dictionary

• fraught — /frɔt / (say frawt) adjective 1. complicated by various difficulties and uncertainties: the situation is fraught. 2. Colloquial upset; anxious; tense: to be feeling fraught. 3. Obsolete filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.… …  

• danger — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Exposure to injury Nouns 1. danger, peril, jeopardy, risk, hazard, threat, adventure, insecurity, precariousness, slipperiness; Russian roulette (see chance). 2. (vulnerability to danger) exposure,… …   English dictionary for students

• fraught — [fro:t US fro:t] adj [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… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• fraught — adjective 1 an activity or situation that is fraught is full of problems and is very difficult to deal with: After the argument, relations between them were fraught. | fraught with problems/difficulties/danger: Any program of sudden change is… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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