freight
verb/freɪt/
/freɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they freight | /freɪt/ /freɪt/ |
| he / she / it freights | /freɪts/ /freɪts/ |
| past simple freighted | /ˈfreɪtɪd/ /ˈfreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle freighted | /ˈfreɪtɪd/ /ˈfreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form freighting | /ˈfreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈfreɪtɪŋ/ |
- freight something to send or carry goods by air, sea or train
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- [usually passive] (literary) to fill something with a particular mood or tone
- be freighted with something Each word was freighted with anger.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘hire of a ship for transporting goods’): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with fraught.
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