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past participle of overfreight examples
comparative more overfraught, superlative most overfraught
Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries. quotations examples
MALCOLM. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speakWhispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
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, [Act IV, scene iii]
All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […]