Fraught vs Fraud - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
* 1610 , , by Shakespeare
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
* Shakespeare
Furnished, equipped.
Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
* South
* I. Taylor
* 2005 , .
Distressed.
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Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between fraught and fraud
is that fraught is (obsolete) a ship's cargo, lading or freight while fraud is (obsolete) to defraud.As nouns the difference between fraught and fraud
is that fraught is (obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo while fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As verbs the difference between fraught and fraud
is that fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc) while fraud is (obsolete) to defraud.As an adjective fraught
is (of a cargo-carrier) laden.fraught
English
Noun
(-)- fraught money .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* fraught-freeVerb
(en verb)- Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.
Adjective
(en adjective)- a vessel of our country richly fraught
- a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
- enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
- all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
- a fraught relationship
References
*fraud
English
Noun
(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud