overfraught

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Verb

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overfraught

  1. past participle of overfreight

Adjective

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overfraught (comparative more overfraught, superlative most overfraught)

  1. Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
      MALCOLM. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
      Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
      All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
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