a situation fraught with danger
1fraught 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 …
2fraught 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 …
3fraught — 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 …
4fraught — adj. (cannot stand alone) fraught with (the situation was fraught with danger) * * * [frɔːt] (cannot stand alone) fraught with (the situation was fraught with danger) …
5fraught — /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.… …
6danger — 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,… …
7fraught — [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… …
8fraught — 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… …
9performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
