Wrought
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of work archaic, form-of, participle, past, rare
"What hath God wrought?"
- 2 simple past and past participle of wreak form-of, participle, past
"We are, however, in danger of ignoring the more fundamental lessons, forgetting the imperative to root out and to curb within our societies at every level—most importantly that of the individual—the greed, avarice, corruption and hubris which has wrought and will wreak so much havoc, not just in our relatively rich countries, but has its impact most unfairly on the poorer, unsophisticated countries."
- 1 Having been worked or prepared somehow.
"Is that fence made out of wrought iron?"
- 1 shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) wordnet
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More examples"Our two brothers wrought their common death."
Etymology
The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked. Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
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