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Fright vs Fraught - What's the difference?

fright | fraught |

As nouns the difference between fright and fraught

is that fright is a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm while fraught is the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.

As verbs the difference between fright and fraught

is that fright is to frighten while fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc.).

As an adjective fraught is

laden.

fright

English

Noun

(wikipedia fright)
  • A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2:
    • With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
  • Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
    • Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
    You might be sure she was a perfect fright ;
    She did this during even her husband's life
    I recommend as much to every wife.

    Derived terms

    * fright wig

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to frighten

    • fraught

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
  • (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
    • fraught money .
  • (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
  • (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (Scotland) A load; a burden.
  • (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).

    • Derived terms

    * fraught-free

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
  • * 1610 , , by Shakespeare
    • 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)
  • (of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a vessel of our country richly fraught
  • Furnished, equipped.
  • Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
  • * South
    • a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
  • * I. Taylor
    • enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
  • * 2005 , .
    • all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
  • Distressed.
    • a fraught relationship
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