wrought
/ɹoːt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of wreak
Example Sentences
- "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—"
- "It was no very easy task, for the skiff lay amidships and was full of hamper, and the breaking of the heavier seas continually forced us to give over and hold on; but we all wrought like horses while we could."
- "I need not describe his attainments as sheep-farmer or shepherd; he scarcely learned the barest rudiments; and the sage master of Clachlands trusted him only when he wrought under his own vigilant eye."
- "That world in torment, those countless hands stretched upward in appeal, that murmur of infinite pain, the cry of the hungry, of the widow, of men sitting by tireless hearths, of children dying in mill and mine—the picture wrought on her so strongly, that she could not rest."
Etymology
The past participle of Middle English worchen (“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. 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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *werǵ-, worchen, wyrċan, *wurkijan, *wurkijaną
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹoːt/
- British English: /ɹɔːt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wrought (comparative)
most wrought (superlative)