freighted

1. 1
   loaded withadjectivefiguratively

   Loaded with cargo; also, figuratively, charged or filled with something, such as a scent or a hidden meaning.

   The barges, freighted with coal and timber, crept down the canal toward the city.

   For both children, "home" had become a freighted word after the divorce.

   Similarfraught

   Note

   The cargo can be goods or something less solid. Washington Irving's ship in Astoria sails freighted with supplies; James Baldwin's narrator in "Sonny's Blues" hears everything he says as freighted with hidden meaning. With names the load. Placed bare before a noun, as in a freighted term, it leaves the load unsaid and implies associations that make the word hard to use lightly. Its close synonym is fraught.

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of freight.

   The turbine parts were freighted from Ohio to the assembly plant in Texas.

   By noon the volunteers had freighted the van with blankets and canned food for the shelter.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one form serves the simple past (they freighted the crates south), the perfect (had freighted) and the passive (were freighted by rail). Its object can be either the goods or the vehicle: turbine parts are freighted to Texas, while a van is freighted with blankets. In American use the verb often adds up when it means carrying things along as part of a load.

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