Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wrought
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɔt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shaped, molded, wrought
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • The child's nerves were all wrought up, too.
  • Lord, thou hast wrought miracles for such sinners as me!
  • Of their love and content the minstrel wrought this Lay.
  • So it has--a miracle wrought by my genius, which is considerable."
  • There, on the floor of the hall, lay a great and beautiful chest of wrought silver.
  • Seven spears, and the seventh Was wrought as the faerie blades, And given to Elf the minstrel By the monstrous water-maids;
  • He wrought his appointed tasks ungrudgingly, though without enthusiasm; but when his employer's day was over, his own began.
  • Ten years later, the ghost of my good deed returns to haunt me, and makes me doubt whether I have wrought more evil than good.
  • Drawing a cunningly wrought key from his pocket-pouch, he removed the cover of the right-hand dial of the controlling destination compass.
  • It was wrought in the monk's slow manner, From silver and sanguine shell, Where the scenes are little and terrible, Keyholes of heaven and hell.