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freight

/fɹeɪt/ verb C2
  1. To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers. (transitive)
  2. To transport (goods). (transitive)
  3. To load or store (goods, etc.). (transitive)
  4. To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load. (figuratively, transitive)
  5. Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo. (US, figuratively, intransitive)

Plural freight · He/she/it freights · Past freighted · Past participle freighted · -ing form freighting

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Verb forms

Base form
freight
He/she/it
freights
Past
freighted
Past participle
freighted
-ing form
freighting

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Your son has probably neglected some prescribed form or attention in registering his cargo, and it is more than probable he will be set at liberty directly he has given the information required, whether touching the health of his crew, or the value of his freight.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 31 · C1
I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 34 · C1
I fully authorize you at once to assume the command of the Pharaon, and look carefully to the unloading of her freight.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 38 · C1
He ordered another—an oil sketch of the Lackawanna freight depot—to take back with him.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 5 · C1

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