fraught vs tense

fraught

adj
  • Distressed or causing distress, for example through complexity. 

  • Furnished, equipped. 

  • Loaded up or charged with; accompanied by; entailing. 

  • Laden. 

noun
  • Two bucketfuls (of water). 

  • A load; a burden. 

verb
  • To load (a ship, cargo etc.). 

tense

adj
  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. 

  • Pulled taut, without any slack. 

verb
  • To apply a tense to. 

  • To make tense. 

  • To become tense. 

noun
  • Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. 

How often have the words fraught and tense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )