WROUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrought mean? 

• WROUGHT (adjective)
  The adjective WROUGHT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WROUGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WROUGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

molded; shaped; wrought

Context example:

the wrought silver bracelet

Similar:

formed (having or given a form or shape)

 Context examples 

The night will come when I may do to thee and thine what you and your class have wrought upon mine and me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could not forget in a day all the evil that had been wrought him at the hands of men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield to it for a moment, whatever followed; he crossed the floor and seized my arm and grasped my waist.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I thought of myself, lying here, when that first great change was being wrought at home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The change which a few hours had wrought in the minds and the happiness of the Dashwoods, was such—so great—as promised them all, the satisfaction of a sleepless night.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That I may die now, either by my own hand or that of another, before the greater evil is entirely wrought.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I'm wrought up to-day," he said in an undertone. "All I want to do is to love, not talk."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was surprised at the eagerness which animated the whole team and which was communicated to him; but still more surprising was the change wrought in Dave and Sol-leks.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But a new study shows that they also accelerate damage wrought by blinding eye disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa.

(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)