wrought
Americanverb
adjective
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elaborated; embellished.
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not rough or crude.
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produced or shaped by beating with a hammer, as iron or silver articles.
verb
adjective
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metallurgy shaped by hammering or beating
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(often in combination) formed, fashioned, or worked as specified
well-wrought
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decorated or made with delicate care
Usage
Wrought is sometimes used as if it were the past tense and past participle of wreak as in the hurricane wrought havoc in coastal areas. Many people think this use is incorrect
Related Words
See worked.
Other Word Forms
- interwrought adjective
- self-wrought adjective
- superwrought adjective
- underwrought adjective
- unwrought adjective
- well-wrought adjective
Etymology
Origin of wrought
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English wroght, metathetic variant of worht, past participle of worchen “to work”; work
Example Sentences
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None but a child taken at an early age would have ever attained the proficiency and wrought such widespread evil as I have.
From Literature
Demographics, rising profits and soaring asset values have together wrought a quiet transformation in the American economy.
Such is the supply-chain disruption wrought by the global drive into artificial intelligence, which requires fleets of data centers with servers needing gargantuan amounts of memory.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wrought a political miracle, leading her Liberal Democratic Party over the weekend to its biggest-ever election victory and a two-thirds majority in the Lower House of parliament.
From Barron's
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wrought a political miracle, leading her Liberal Democratic Party over the weekend to its biggest-ever election victory and a two-thirds majority in the Lower House of parliament.
From Barron's
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