Definition of fraught

"fraught" in the adjective sense

1. fraught

marked by distress

"a fraught mother-daughter relationship"

2. fraught, pregnant

filled with or attended with

"words fraught with meaning"

"an incident fraught with danger"

"a silence pregnant with suspense"

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Quotations for fraught

We look before and after,
And sigh for what is not.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those
that tell of saddest thought [ Shelley ]

Swell bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues. [ William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3, Sc. 3 ]

O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. [ Milton ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught. [ Waller ]

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! [ Queen Elizabeth ]

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. [ Horace Bushnell ]

fraught in Scrabble®

The word fraught is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fraught:

FRAUGHT
(106 = 56 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

fraught

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word fraught

FRAUGHT
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FRAUGHT
(104 = 54 + 50)
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FRAUGHT
(66 = 16 + 50)
FRAUGHT
(66 = 16 + 50)
FRAUGHT
(66 = 16 + 50)
FRAUGHT
(65 = 15 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fraught

FRAUGHT
(106 = 56 + 50)
FRAUGHT
(104 = 54 + 50)
FRAUGHT
(104 = 54 + 50)
FRAUGHT
(98 = 48 + 50)
FRAUGHT
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FRAUGHT
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FRAUGHT
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FRAUGHT
(86 = 36 + 50)
FRAUGHT
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FRAUGHT
(86 = 36 + 50)
FRAUGHT
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FRAUGHT
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fraught in Words With Friends™

The word fraught is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters fraught:

FRAUGHT
(110 = 75 + 35)
FRAUGHT
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

fraught

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word fraught

FRAUGHT
(110 = 75 + 35)
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(110 = 75 + 35)
FRAUGHT
(104 = 69 + 35)
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FRAUGHT
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(51 = 16 + 35)
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(50 = 15 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fraught

FRAUGHT
(110 = 75 + 35)
FRAUGHT
(110 = 75 + 35)
FRAUGHT
(104 = 69 + 35)
FRAUGHT
(104 = 69 + 35)
FRAUGHT
(98 = 63 + 35)
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Words within the letters of fraught

2 letter words in fraught (8 words)

3 letter words in fraught (19 words)

4 letter words in fraught (6 words)

5 letter words in fraught (3 words)

7 letter words in fraught (1 word)

fraught + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence fraught

Words that start with fraught (3 words)

Words with fraught in them (1 word)

Words that end with fraught (2 words)

Word Growth involving fraught

Shorter words in fraught

ugh aught

Longer words containing fraught

fraughted

fraughting

overfraught