FREIGHTED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

freighted

verb

past tense of freight

as in loaded

to place a weight or burden on it took six hours to freight the cargo airplane

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Recent Examples of freighted The Middle Ages is a period freighted with the immense weight of outdated preconceptions. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 For them, the word feels like something from the past — dusty, subservient, restrictive, and freighted with baggage. — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026 Mia Gonzales-Swinton stood on a Dover Air Force tarmac freighted with grief, keeping her 4-year-old daughter close in front of her. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 26 July 2026 Russell said that his battery from his Canadian GP retirement is still being sea-freighted back to Mercedes’ F1 base in the United Kingdom. — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 27 June 2026 That night was freighted with meaning; a win could set the team up for potential advancement, while a loss could dim those hopes. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 June 2026 Typical of rape survivors, black women were freighted with a particular kind of animus. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026 Take 25 Hours, in Long Island City, for example, which is freighted with a depressing ambience that is equal parts chemistry lab and subterranean grotto. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026 But that’s also because the performances are so heavily freighted with character, so to speak, that the humanity of the whole often gets shrouded in so many fantastical layers. — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026

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Officers then cuffed the youngster as he was loaded into an ambulance and hospitalized for a fractured femur and a nasty bruise on his head, according to the lawsuit, which was filed by the teen’s dad, Mahmoud Saleh, in Brooklyn Federal Court.

— John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Each assembly keeps its own filament loaded, ready for the next time it's needed.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

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