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