worked
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of work
worked (not comparable)
- Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
- 1811, William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, page 73:
- A heavy rich loam is, perhaps, the best of any; but carse lands, and well worked and manured clay soils, are also very suitable.
- 1811, William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, page 73:
- Wrought.
- Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
- 1832, James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage, page 39:
- ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
- 1832, James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage, page 39:
- Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
- 1803, William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire, page 84:
- ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
- 1803, William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire, page 84:
- Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
- Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
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