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English
Verb
overfraught
- past participle of overfreight
Adjective
overfraught (comparative more overfraught, superlative most overfraught)
- 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :MALCOLM. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.