wrought

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He had been over-wrought, and I felt his weariness, as he galloped with feebler stroke.

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  1. verb A past tense and a past participle of work.
  2. adjective Put together; created: a carefully wrought plan.
  3. adjective Shaped by hammering with tools. Used chiefly of metals or metalwork.

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  • The brim was elaborately wrought, as were also the handles and the three feet on which it rested, leaving a space running through the middle perfectly plain with the exception of several beautifully carved hieroglyphics that were placed with great regularity and precision around the centre. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
  • Of its keel snuff boxes were wrought, and regarded as valuable relics. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
  • But as yet none of these miracles had been wrought, and, with Toulon lost, they might be forever impossible Such was the setting of the stage in the great national theater of France when Napoleon Buonaparte entered on the scene. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
  • Where the silk stockings were wrought, and the Jerusalem sandals made, that he had on his feet, James Batter used doucely to observe he would leave every reasonable man to guess at a venture A good story not being the worse of being twice told, I repeat it over again, that I would have been worse than daft, after the precious warning it was my fortune to get, to have sanctioned such places with my presence, in spite of the remonstrances of my conscience--and of Maister Wiggie--and of the kirk-session. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • He had been stunned for a few moments by the explosion; but on recovering he only waited to realise the ruin he had wrought, and then, seizing a favourite geological hammer, he raced away to the rocks to practise what stood him in place of strong language No one had dared to attempt restoring order in the Den; the maids would not have set foot within its door for their lives. —  Viking Boys
 

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  1. Middle English wroght, from Old English geworht, past participle of wyrcan, to work; see werg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Pp. of work.
 

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