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WROUGHT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
Example:
the wrought silver bracelet
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Classified under:
Similar:
formed (having or given a form or shape)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle / present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wrought
Context examples:
Had the half-breed simply wrought his vengeance and then escaped, all might have been well with him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden Place to Westgate Buildings.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
No, it is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
While Amy stood laughing on the bank above him as she scattered crumbs to the brilliant birds, Laurie looked at her as she had looked at him, with a natural curiosity to see what changes time and absence had wrought.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And Bawn—"Ay, with our own eyes. And this continued until the bear stood suddenly upright and cried aloud in pain, and thrashed his fore paws madly about. And Keesh continued to make off over the ice to a safe distance. But the bear gave him no notice, being occupied with the misfortune the little round balls had wrought within him."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Gales we encountered now and again, for it was a raw and stormy region, and, in the middle of June, a typhoon most memorable to me and most important because of the changes wrought through it upon my future.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I will not say that we have not wrought great scath upon France, but women and children have been safe from us.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The publication of what I had written, and the public notice I received, wrought a change in the fibre of your love.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I could not enough admire the change he had wrought in the Golden Cross; or compare the dull forlorn state I had held yesterday, with this morning's comfort and this morning's entertainment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
