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wrought
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)
- 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
- simple past tense and past participle of work
- 2001, Wiesehofer, Josef, Ancient Persia, I.B.Tauris, ?ISBN, page 27:
- 2001, Wiesehofer, Josef, Ancient Persia, I.B.Tauris, ?ISBN, page 27:
- (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.
- 2008, The Parliamentary Debates : House of Lords official report, p. 85:
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
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chafery
English
Noun
chafery (plural chaferies)
- An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 224
- The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney.
- 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 224
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