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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERFRAUGHT

overfraught  [ˌəʊvəˈfrɔːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERFRAUGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overfraught is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERFRAUGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overfraught in the English dictionary

The definition of overfraught in the dictionary is too fraught.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERFRAUGHT


bestraught
bɪˈstrɔːt
brought
brɔːt
distraught
dɪˈstrɔːt
fraught
frɔːt
handwrought
ˈhændˌrɔːt
highwrought
ˈhaɪˌrɔːt
interwrought
ˌɪntəˈrɔːt
inwrought
ˌɪnˈrɔːt
outwrought
aʊtˈrɔːt
overwrought
ˌəʊvəˈrɔːt
rort
rɔːt
underwrought
ˌʌndəˈrɔːt
unfraught
ʌnˈfrɔːt
unwrought
ʌnˈrɔːt
upwrought
ʌpˈrɔːt
wrought
rɔːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERFRAUGHT

overfocus
overfocussed
overfold
overfond
overfondly
overfondness
overforward
overforwardness
overfoul
overfrank
overfree
overfreedom
overfreely
overfreight
overfulfill
overfull
overfullness
overfulness
overfund
overfunding

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERFRAUGHT

aught
bought
caught
Connaught
downdraught
draught
dreadnaught
fearnaught
feel the draught
flaught
indraught
naught
on draught
onslaught
self-taught
set at naught
sleeping draught
taught
uncaught
untaught
well-taught

Synonyms and antonyms of overfraught in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overfraught» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERFRAUGHT

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The translations of overfraught from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overfraught» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

overfraught
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overfraught
570 millions of speakers

English

overfraught
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overfraught
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overfraught
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overfraught
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overfraught
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overfraught
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overfraught
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terlalu banyak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overfraught
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overfraught
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overfraught
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overfraught
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overfraught
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overfraught
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतिप्रमाणात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overfraught
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overfraught
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overfraught
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overfraught
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overfraught
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overfraught
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overfraught
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overfraught
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overfraught
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overfraught

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERFRAUGHT»

The term «overfraught» is normally little used and occupies the 150.603 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERFRAUGHT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overfraught» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overfraught» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overfraught

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERFRAUGHT»

Discover the use of overfraught in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overfraught and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John ...
But now he realizes his mistake: I saw, I had loves pinnace overfraught, Ev'ry thy haire for love to worke upon Is much too much, some fitter must be sought; For, nor in nothing, nor in things Extreme, and scattring bright, can love inhere. . . . (Air  ...
‎2001
2
Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
Whilst thus to ballast love I thought 15 And so more steadily to have gone, With wares which would sink admiration I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught. Every thy hair for love to work upon Is much too much; some fitter must be sought. 20 For ...
Gordon Braden, 2008
3
Literature and the Human: Theory, Criticism, Practice
In 'Air and Angels', however, 'overfraught' sexual love defeats any such higher values. If the other was a nothing in the overly spiritualized love invoked in verse one, then she is not much more than nothing in the body fragments listed in verse  ...
Andy Mousley, 2013
4
The Countess of Salisbury: A Tragedy
Thy sorrows vent; thy bosom's overfraught, And will find ease by letting loose its woes. Lad]_Sal. _VVcll, well Then he is lost, and all, all is despair. Tho' languid, yet was hone not quite extinct— Where, where's the stranger ? Seek him, haste ...
Hall Hartson, 1793
5
Religion and poetry: being selections spiritual and moral, ...
Almost every sentence is overfraught with thought. Paradise is exquisitely described ; but still nobler are those passages which refer to the Great Redeemer , God and man alike. Towards the conclusion of the Book, Satan appears to harden ...
Robert Montgomery, 1847
6
Primroses by a River's Brim: poems
The heart with pity overfraught Is manly still, though it may be By fickleness misled awhile To wander from its earlier love ; But there's no mercy in thy smile Compassion in thine heart to move. It matters not; no fault of mine The change which I ...
Mrs. Jane THOMAS, 1865
7
The North American Magazine
Bryant selects his choicest ideas with hesitation and unfolds them in. verses refined and polished — filtered and burnished by the most protracted labour ; Percival pours out his imaginings from a heart overfraught with thought and feeling and ...
‎1833
8
John Donne's Lyrics: The Eloquence of Action
With wares which would sinke admiration, I saw, I had loves pinnace overfraught. The material image is very effective, as the weight of physical detail threatens not only to balance immaterial lightness but to "sinke" it. The word "admiration," ...
Arnold Sidney Stein, 1962
9
A Tale of Two Cities
All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. At length the new postilions are in their saddles, and the old are left behind. We are through the village, up the ...
Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood, 2003
10
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of the ...
And so more steadily t' have gone, - l' saw, I had love's þinnace overfraught. Dame. BALLASTAGE. See LAsTAGI-z. (1.) BALLASTING, akr or. The know'ledge of ballnsting a ship with propriety" certainly' merits the attention of the skilful mariner: ...
‎1816

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERFRAUGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overfraught is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Shopping at Valentino in Midtown
In an era of grade-school metal detectors, such an expensive appropriation of army print felt overfraught. Photo. Credit Jennifer S. Altman for ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
2
Was I ready to be a judge with HIV?
Was I unduly sensitive, overfraught? These reflections took on new intensity after the judge granted us leave to appeal. The stress of the trial, ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Feb 14»
3
Alfredo Jaar @ Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale
... lowers the artworld the whole thing presents an overfraught ritual, perhaps an appropriate metaphor for the periodic emergence of the Venice ... «The Skinny, Jul 13»

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