overfraught

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.

   MALCOLM. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

Formed from over- + fraught. Fraught originally meant loaded or freighted; overfraught intensifies that image to describe something excessively burdened, especially with care or emotion.

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