Wrought

Word WROUGHT
Character 7
Hyphenation wrought
Pronunciations /ɹɔːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Wrought"

What do we mean by wrought?

Put together; created. adjective

Shaped by hammering with tools. Used chiefly of metals or metalwork. adjective

Worked, as distinguished from rough: noting masonry, carpentry, etc.

Imp. & p. p. of work.

Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude. adjective

See under Iron. adjective

Having been worked or prepared somehow. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of work. verb

Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) adjective

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

To effect by gradual degrees.

To embroider with thread.

To set into action.

To cause to ferment.

To ferment.

To exhaust, by working.

To shape, form, or improve a material.

To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

To provoke or excite; to influence.

To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

To cause to work.

To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

To influence.

To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.

To move in an agitated manner.

To behave in a certain way when handled

(with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

To hurt; to ache.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Wrought

The word "wrought" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I just get mad when people seem to think that farmers are on “welfare” subsidies and riding some kind of gravy train wrought from protectionism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even then, the maximum penalty that can be wrought is the forfeiture of the boat and her cargo (but emphatically not imprisonment of the crew). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even then, the maximum penalty that can be wrought is the forfeiture of the boat and her cargo (but emphatically not imprisonment of thecrew). ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the other hand, here is a critique of imperialism wrought from the insatiable appropriation and repurposing of subordinate cultural material. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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". ❋ Unknown (2006)

I saw what the murderous, brutal regime of Saddam Hussein wrought on that country through his party and their fedayeen henchmen. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For others the prospect of the radical change which must be wrought is too heartrending to be contemplated and the comfort of the known is preferable. ❋ Unknown (1989)

The violence Einstein wrought on the common run of thought has been only approached by others. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Going freely among the neighbors, and welcoming and helping them familiarly, the Wordsworths laid their own lives open to observation; and the mingled carefulness and comfort -- the good thrift, in short -- wrought as ❋ Various (N/A)

Yes, these have been the tragic years, the years when the good wrought from the last war could have been preserved and the evils of the present one avoided, and they were not. ❋ Unknown (1941)

'Tis the Archbishop, whom in His name wrought God; ❋ Anonymous (1909)

Parson Lothrop belonged to a numerous class in the third generation of Massachusetts clergy, commonly called Arminian, – men in whom this insensible change had been wrought from the sharply defined and pronounced Calvinism of the early fathers. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Such, it appears, was the case; and the ruin wrought by that Erith catastrophe would, it was hoped, be paralleled at Fort Fisher. ❋ Unknown (1865)

I will not call them men, who have for years past rioted in wealth, wrought from the tears, groans, sighs, blood, and outraged virtue of their fellow-man-who have been schooled in lowest vice, and educated in blackest ❋ Unknown (1865)

Meanwhile, the believer and the speculator, combining to form a Christian philosophy wherein doubt and faith, thought and freedom, reason and sentiment, nature and revelation, all embrace, even as the truth of things and the experience of life demand, may both adopt for their own the expression wrought for himself by a pure and fervent poet in these freighted lines of pathetic beauty: ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

The salvation wrought is a common salvation; the proposals are general, the tender free; whoever will may come, and take of these waters of life. ❋ Unknown (1721)

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