freighted
adjUS, UK /ˈfɹeɪtɪd/
Etymology From freight + -ed.
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Also, Figuratively Loaded with cargo; charged.
- The purple silk curtains excluded the night-dews, while they allowed the air to enter freighted with odours from the orange trees on the terrace below.[1832], L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Enchantress”, in Heath’s Book of Beauty. M.DCCC.XXXIII. […], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […] [for Charles Heath], →OCLC, page 30:
- On hearing of this determination, Mr. [John Jacob] Astor immediately proceeded to fit out a ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XXV, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 217:
4 more examples
- Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965:
- 'Identity' is a freighted term to use in a philosophical context.2002, Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World:
- It will also consider problems of periodization, a freighted issue in the case of Russia, in part because there the conclusion of peace did not mark the end of armed conflict.2009, Abbott Gleason, A Companion to Russian History:
- In the process, I hope to illuminate the myriad, rather than singular, forms of sexuality and eroticism that have in fact always traversed these politically freighted, ideologically constructed divides from a number of directions.2014, Joseph A. Boone, The Homoerotics of Orientalism:
- Derived terms
- overfreighted, unfreighted