overfraught

overfraught

1. past participle of overfreight

overfraught (comparative more overfraught, superlative most overfraught)

1. Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

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

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.