Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
fraught (adj.)
means “filled, loaded, charged, especially emotionally charged” and combines frequently with the preposition with: The situation in the office is fraught with tension. Fraught is also Standard without a following phrase, although usually limited to Informal and Conversational use: Everyone was tense; the atmosphere in the room was truly fraught.
