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Spelling: [rawt]

IPA: /rɔt/

Wrought is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in wrought (ghortuw).

Definitions for wrought

noun

1. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
2. productive or operative activity.
3. employment, as in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood:
4. one's place of employment:
5. something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking:
6. materials, things, etc., on which one is working or is to work.
7. the result of exertion, labor, or activity; a deed or performance.
8. a product of exertion, labor, or activity:
9. Often, works. an engineering structure, as a building or bridge.
10. a building, wall, trench, or the like, constructed or made as a means of fortification.
11. works. (used with a singular or plural verb) a place or establishment for manufacturing (often used in combination): the working parts of a machine: Theology. righteous deeds.
12. Physics. force times the distance through which it acts; specifically, the transference of energy equal to the product of the component of a force that acts in the direction of the motion of the point of application of the force and the distance through which the point of application moves.
13. the works, Informal. everything; all related items or matters: harsh or cruel treatment:

verb

1. Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.

Idioms

1. at work, working, as at one's job: in action or operation:
2. gum up the works, Slang. to spoil something, as through blundering or stupidity:
3. in the works, in preparation or being planned:
4. make short work of, to finish or dispose of quickly:
5. out of work, unemployed; jobless:
6. shoot the works, Slang. to spend all one's resources:
7. work it, Informal. to arrange something: to show off one’s body or clothing to best effect, often through movement or posing:

adjective

1. worked.
2. elaborated; embellished.
3. not rough or crude.
4. produced or shaped by beating with a hammer, as iron or silver articles.
5. of, for, or concerning work:
6. shaped and planed; working.

Verb phrases

1. work in/into, to bring or put in; add, merge, or blend: to arrange a time or employment for:
2. work off, to lose or dispose of, as by exercise or labor: to pay or fulfill by working:
3. work on/upon, to exercise influence on; persuade; affect:
4. work out, to bring about by work, effort, or action. to solve, as a problem. to arrive at by or as by calculation. to pay (a debt) by working instead of paying money. to exhaust, as a mine. to issue in a result. to evolve; elaborate. to amount to (a total or specified figure); add up (to): to prove effective or successful: to practice, exercise, or train, especially in order to become proficient in an athletic sport:
5. work over, to study or examine thoroughly: Informal. to beat unsparingly, especially in order to obtain something or out of revenge:
6. work through, to deal with successfully; come to terms with:
7. work up, to move or stir the feelings; excite. to prepare; elaborate: to increase in efficiency or skill:
8. work up to, rise to a higher position; advance:

verb (used with object)

1. to use or manage (an apparatus, contrivance, etc.):
2. to bring about (any result) by or as by work or effort:
3. to manipulate or treat by labor:
4. to put into effective operation.
5. to operate (a mine, farm, etc.) for productive purposes:
6. to carry on operations in (a district or region).
7. to make, fashion, or execute by work.
8. to achieve or win by work or effort:
9. to keep (a person, a horse, etc.) at work:
10. to cause a strong emotion in:
11. to influence or persuade, especially insidiously:
12. Informal. to exploit (someone or something) to one's advantage:
13. to make or decorate by needlework or embroidery:
14. to cause fermentation in.
15. to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.):
16. to carry out the promptings of (one's rage, ill humor, will, desire, etc.), as on a victim or object:

verb (used without object)

1. to do work; labor.
2. to be employed, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood:
3. to be in operation, as a machine:
4. to act or operate effectively:
5. to attain a specified condition, as by repeated movement:
6. to have an effect or influence, as on a person or on the mind or feelings of a person.
7. to move in agitation, as the features under strong emotion.
8. to make way with effort or under stress:
9. Nautical. to give slightly at the joints, as a vessel under strain at sea.
10. Machinery. to move improperly, as from defective fitting of parts or from wear.
11. to undergo treatment by labor in a given way:
12. to ferment, as a liquid.

Origin of wrought

1200-50; Middle English wroght, metathetic variant of worht, past participle of worchen to work

Examples for wrought

And a coup probably would exacerbate the economic problems that months of friction, violence and impasse have wrought.

Then as now, the majority of Americans had little interest in examining the nuclear sword of Damocles their fear had wrought.

Many a dismal and unhappy tale might be wrought out of its other adventures.

Now, without warning, a startling transformation was wrought.

On that foul throng that wrought them wrong—on Jury and on Judge!

They told how Tomo was wrought to a pitch of frenzied interest by this manhunt.

At least 11 people were killed in the blizzard and $6 million in damage was wrought.

The thought that such horror could be wrought by a white boy who wasn't hugged enough, doesn't seem to occur to them.

Of course, that doesn't really alter the havoc they've wrought.

The evils which Mammon has wrought Mammon will never remedy.