wrought

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.