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Also Inflected form of work

wrought

UK/ɹɔːt/ US/ɹoːt/ uncommon archaic rare

adjective

1.

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

  • “a shaped handgrip”
  • “the molded steel plates”
  • “the wrought silver bracelet”
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Origin

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).

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