Wrought vs. Fraught — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wrought and Fraught
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Wrought
(of metals) beaten out or shaped by hammering.
Fraught
Filled with a specified element or elements; charged
An incident fraught with danger.
An evening fraught with high drama.
Wrought
Made or fashioned in the specified way
Well-wrought pop music
Fraught
Marked by or causing distress; emotional
"an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship" (Francesca Simon).
Wrought
A past tense and a past participle of work.
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Fraught
Freight; cargo.
Wrought
Put together; created
A carefully wrought plan.
Fraught
(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
Wrought
Shaped by hammering with tools. Used chiefly of metals or metalwork.
Fraught
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
Fraught money
Wrought
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
Fraught
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
Wrought
Simple past tense and past participle of work
What hath God wrought?
Fraught
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
Wrought
(see usage notes) wreak
Fraught
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
Wrought
Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.
Fraught
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
Wrought
Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort);
A shaped handgrip
The molded steel plates
The wrought silver bracelet
Fraught
To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
Fraught
To form the cargo of a vessel.
Fraught
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
Fraught
Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing.
Fraught
(with with) Furnished, equipped.
Fraught
Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity.
A fraught relationship; a fraught process
Fraught
A freight; a cargo.
Fraught
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
A vessel of our country richly fraught.
A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech.
Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.
Fraught
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted rideThe armed ships.
Fraught
Marked by distress;
A fraught mother-daughter relationship
Fraught
Filled with or attended with;
Words fraught with meaning
An incident fraught with danger
A silence pregnant with suspense
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