wrought Definition
wrought (rôt)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
Etymology: ME wrogt, altered < worgt, pp. of weorken < OE wyrcan, to work
adjective
- formed; fashioned
- shaped by hammering or beating: said of metals
- elaborated with care
- decorated; ornamented
wrought Synonyms
wrought
modif.
wrought Usage Examples
Object
- havoc: A plowman and his great plow, now standing idle in the furrow, had in a day wrought a terrible havoc.
- miracle: The following day's concert wrought the miracle which was trailered in the opening paragraph of this account.
- change: By postulating the concept of a mechanical universe he wrought immense changes in European man's conception of the heavens.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
see: Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists.
Modifies a noun
- ironwork: At Letham Hill nearby, the Errol Hut Smithy and woodwork shop produces excellent wrought ironwork, and fine furniture and wood turning.
- iron: Ensure wrought iron or steel gates can not easily be climbed.
- havoc: In his younger days the Admiral had seen service in the China Seas where two powerful pirate fleets wrought havoc among shipping.
- gate: Vast urns, old wrought iron gates, statues - dream on, Keane.
- railing: Surrounding the front garden were eighteenth century black wrought iron railings, tipped with gold paint.
- bedstead: Master suite The Master suite is furnished with a king sized bed and wrought iron bedstead with four poster ivory canopy.
Modifying Another Word
- curiously: It was curiously wrought with gold and purple, and fastened to the ephod with chains of gold.
- finely: Each of his understated, finely wrought novels has been published to international acclaim.
- exquisitely: He presents a succession of many scenes, exquisitely wrought, of Johnson amid widely various settings of Eighteenth-Century England.
- emotionally: What follows is an acute and emotionally wrought portrait of a man and his brood consumed with guilt and despair.
- extensively: Mr. Hopkirk wrought extensively the coal which abounds in Dalbeth.
- formerly: Copper was formerly wrought here, but the mine eventually became unremunerative, and the working was discontinued.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: The great redemption had not yet been fully wrought out into ultimate fact.
- up: We are suffering under the effects of caged competition, already wrought up to agony.
Used with adjective complement
have: I have wrought in these mines for the last 4 years.
Preposition: by
war: The establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission was hailed as a first step toward ending the devastation wrought by rate wars.
Browse dictionary entries near wrought
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- ‹ wrongheaded
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- ‹ wrongful-life action
- ‹ wrongful-death action
- ‹ wrongful conduct
- ‹ wrongful-birth action
- ‹ wrongful act
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