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wrought.

Having been worked or prepared somehow.

7 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɹɔːt/Received-Pronunciation/ɹoːt/Australia, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard/ɹɔt//ɹɑt/cot-caught-merger

  1. Having been worked or prepared somehow.

    Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
Where this word comes from

The past participle of Middle English worchen (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked. Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).

verb/ɹɔːt/Received-Pronunciation/ɹoːt/Australia, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard/ɹɔt//ɹɑt/cot-caught-merger

  1. simple past and past participle of work

    archaic · form-of · participle · past · rare
    What hath God wrought?

  2. simple past and past participle of wreak

    form-of · participle · past
Where this word comes from

The past participle of Middle English worchen (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked. Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).

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