wrought
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
wrought
- Having been worked or prepared somehow.
- Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
- French: travaillé, forgé
- German: bearbeitet, gefertigt, getrieben, gehämmert
- Italian: lavorato
- Russian: (worked) обрабо́танный
- Spanish: trabajado, preparado
- Simple past tense and past participle of work
- (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:
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