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afreight

afreight adjective: filled or charged (with something).

Adjective

afreight (not comparable)

  1. (figuratively, literary) Filled or charged (with something).
    • The air with anguish all afreight, / Breeds pestilence within our state,1898, Robert Stevens Pettet, “Columbia’s Apostasy”, in Columbia’s Apostasy, Philadelphia: for the author, page 6
    • I bow my head, here in the cool night air / That fans my cheek, afreight with odors rare:1907, George Cathcart Bronson, Thou Shalt Waken, Los Angeles: H. L. Ward, Part 3, p. 77
    Synonyms:
    freighted

Synonyms of afreight

Origin of afreight

From a- + freight.

Questions about afreight

What does afreight mean?
Afreight means filled or charged (with something).
What part of speech is afreight?
Afreight is an adjective.

Words near afreight in the dictionary

  1. afrayed
  2. afreard
  3. afreared
  4. afreet
  5. afreets
  6. afreight
  7. afreit
  8. afreits
  9. Afrena
  10. afresh
  11. afribumab

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