Wrought Meaning
Wrought 1. made carefully or decoratively: made in a skillful or decorative way (often used in combination) A delicately wrought ebony screen. 2. relating to decorative metalwork: describes decorative metalwork shaped by hammering and welding. Wrought is an old past tense and past participle not of wreak (for which the past tense is wreaked) but of work: it is the equivalent of modern worked. Wrought survives mainly as an in a few, rather specialized contexts such as wrought iron; it is seen als
Definition
Wrought 1. made carefully or decoratively: made in a skillful or decorative way (often used in combination) A delicately wrought ebony screen. 2. relating to decorative metalwork: describes decorative metalwork shaped by hammering and welding. Wrought is an old past tense and past participle not of wreak (for which the past tense is wreaked) but of work: it is the equivalent of modern worked. Wrought survives mainly as an in a few, rather specialized contexts such as wrought iron; it is seen als
Simple meaning: Wrought 1. made carefully or decoratively: made in a skillful or decorative way (often used in combination) A delicately wrought ebony screen. 2. relating to decorative metalwork: describes decorative metalwork shaped by hammering and welding. Wrought is an old past tense and past participle not of wreak (for which the past tense is wreaked) but of work: it is the equivalent of modern worked. Wrought survives mainly as an in a few, rather specialized contexts such as wrought iron; it is seen als
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