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Meaning of wrought

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

wrought

Pronunciation:/ɹɔːt//ɹɔt/

verb

Definitions

  1. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    Example: He’s working in a bar.

  2. To effect by gradual degrees.

    Example: he worked his way through the crowd

  3. To embroider with thread.

  4. To set into action.

    Example: He worked the levers.

verb

Definitions

  1. To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; .

    Example: She wreaked her anger on his car.

  2. To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.

    Example: The criminal has been wreaked by the Judge to spend a year in prison.

  3. To inflict or take vengeance on.

  4. To take vengeance for.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Having been worked or prepared somehow.

    Example: Is that fence made out of wrought iron?