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Wrought
Webster 1828 Edition
Wrought
WROUGHT
, pret. and pp. of work. raut.1.
Worked; formed by work or labor; as wrought iron.2.
Effected; performed.She hath wrought a good work upon me. Matthew 26.
3.
Effected; produced. He wrought the public safety. A great change was wrought in his mind.This wrought the greatest confusion int he unbelieving Jews.
4.
Used in labor.The elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with. Deuteronomy 21.
5.
Worked; driven; as infection wrought out of the body. [Not used.]6.
Actuated.Vain Morat, by his own rashness wrought--
7.
Worked; used; labored in. The mine is still wrought.8.
Formed; fitted.He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God. 2 Corinthians 5.
9.
Guided; managed. [Not used.]10.
Agitated; disturbed.My dull brain was wrought with things forgot.
Wrought on or upon, influenced; prevailed on. His mind was wrought upon by divine grace.
Wrought to or up to, excited; inflamed. Their minds were wrought up to a violent passion. She was wrought up to the tenderest emotion of pity.
Definition 2024
wrought
wrought
English
Adjective
wrought (comparative more wrought, superlative most wrought)
- Having been worked or prepared somehow.
- Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Having been worked or prepared somehow
Verb
wrought
- simple past tense and past participle of work
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
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Usage notes
- In modern English, wrought is usually not interchangeable with worked, the more common contemporary past and past participle of work.
- Wrought often lends a more archaic flavor.
- The separation of wrought from work has also occurred because while work can be either intransitive or transitive, it is more commonly intransitive, and wrought is transitive only.
- Because the phrase "work havoc" has become uncommon in modern English, its past tense "wrought havoc" is sometimes misinterpreted as being a past tense of "wreak havoc".