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wrought

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"Shaped by work"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɹɔːt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ghortuwStarts with WEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)

Word origin

The past participle of Middle English werken (“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.

Used in a sentence

  • Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
  • What hath God wrought?
  • My mariners, / Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—

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