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单词 wrought
释义 wrought
\ˈrȯt, usu -ȯd.+V\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English wrought, wroght, from wrought, wroght (past participle of worchen, worken to work), from Old English geworht (past participle of wyrcan to work) — more at work
1. : created, shaped
 < and a young lad whose freckled face bore as … finely wrought features as one could wish to see — Sidney Lovett >
2.
 a. : worked into shape by artistry or effort : fashioned, formed
  < beautifully wrought garland of spring flowers >
 b. : fashioned with particular adherence to form or style
  < this highly wrought, artificial conversation, with its … high-piled metaphors — Virginia Woolf >
  < the most highly wrought and finished of English elegies — Marion Tucker >
3. : finished in an elaborate decorative style : embellished, embroidered, ornamented
 < the slippers were … curiously wrought with colored beads — William Black >
 < the screen was … wrought with a rather florid Louis Quatorze pattern — Oscar Wilde >
4. : processed for use : manufactured
 < a gown of wrought silk >
5.
 a. : beaten into shape by tools : shaped by a mechanical action (as rolling, forging, extrusion, or drawing) : hammered — used of metals
  < a bracelet of wrought silver >
  < a tray of wrought copper >
  < wrought brass and wrought bronze are less expensive than some other metals — A.H.Brownell >
 b. : produced by one of these methods
  < searched the shops for wrought work >
6. : not crude or plain : finished
 < the wrought oaken beams — John Keats >
7. : deeply stirred : possessed of an excited state of mind : unduly stimulated
 < when I am highly wrought, I faint — W.S.Gilbert >
— often used with up
 < let myself get wrought up over nothing — Ellen Glasgow >
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