from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Put together; created.
adjective Shaped by hammering with tools. Used chiefly of metals or metalwork.
from The Century Dictionary.
Worked, as distinguished from rough: noting masonry, carpentry, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
imp. & p. p. of work.
adjective Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.
adjective See under Iron.
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adjective Having been worked or prepared somehow.
verb Simple past tense and past participle of work.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English wroght, from Old English geworht, past participle of wyrcan, to work; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]
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The past participle of Middle English werken ("to work"), from Old English wyrcan (past tense worhte, past participle geworht), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijanan, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.).
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Devotees of that icon will view any attempt to alter the universe with deep suspicion, and as flawed and tattered as it might be, there will be a very high bar set for anyone who tries to reshape -- or "reboot" -- the sacred world to prove that what they have wrought is truly an improvement on what came before.
It even had a name, set in wrought iron letters above the closed-in driveway doors: "Casona de Tzintzuntzan", "the manor house in the place where the hummingbirds gather".
It even had a name, set in wrought iron letters above the closed-in driveway doors: "Casona de Tzintzuntzan", "the manor house in the place where the hummingbirds gather".
wytukaze commented on the word wrought
Citation at sedge.
November 13, 2008
catspringer commented on the word wrought
(adjective) Deeply disturbed or excited.
April 7, 2009