different between hewn vs wrought

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju?n/

Adjective

hewn (comparative more hewn, superlative most hewn)

1. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
2. Having been cut or mown down.

Related terms

• rough-hewn

Verb

hewn

1. past participle of hew

Synonyms

• hewed

Anagrams

• when

English

Etymology

The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyr?an (past tense worhte, past participle ?eworht), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijan? (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- (“to work”). 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).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: rot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

wrought (comparative more wrought, superlative most wrought)

1. Having been worked or prepared somehow.

   Is that fence made out of wrought iron?

Antonyms

• unwrought

Derived terms

• wrought iron
• wrought-up

Translations

Verb

wrought

1. simple past tense and past participle of work
   • 2001, Wiesehofer, Josef, Ancient Persia, I.B.Tauris, ?ISBN, page 27:

2. (see usage notes) simple past tense and past participle of wreak
   • 2008, The Parliamentary Debates : House of Lords official report, p. 85:

     We are, however, in danger of ignoring the more fundamental lessons, forgetting the imperative to root out and to curb within our societies at every level—most importantly that of the individual—the greed, avarice, corruption and hubris which has wrought and will wreak so much havoc, not just in our relatively rich countries, but has its impact most unfairly on the poorer, unsophisticated countries.

Usage notes

• In contemporary English, wrought is usually not interchangeable with worked, the more common past and past participle of work.
• While wrought usually lends a more archaic flavor, it is still fairly common in certain transitive constructions, e.g. in to work miracles.
• Because the phrase work havoc has become uncommon, its past tense wrought havoc is now sometimes misinterpreted as being a past tense of wreak havoc.

Derived terms

• bewrought
• forewrought
• forwrought
• inwrought
• miswrought
• overwrought
• underwrought
• unwrought