Word Finder - wrought

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

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He’s working in a bar.

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To effect by gradual degrees.

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he worked his way through the crowd

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To embroider with thread.

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To set into action.

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He worked the levers.

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To cause to ferment.

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To ferment.

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To exhaust, by working.

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The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.

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To shape, form, or improve a material.

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He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

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To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

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she works the night clubs

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To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

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To provoke or excite; to influence.

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The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.

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To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

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She knows how to work the system.

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To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

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I cannot work a miracle.

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To cause to work.

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He is working his servants hard.

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To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

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he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work

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To influence.

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They worked on her to join the group.

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To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.

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To move in an agitated manner.

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A ship works in a heavy sea.

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To behave in a certain way when handled

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this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well

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(with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

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To hurt; to ache.

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

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She wreaked her anger on his car.

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

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

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To inflict or take vengeance on.

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To take vengeance for.

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Having been worked or prepared somehow.

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Is that fence made out of wrought iron?

Her days were long but peaceful, wrought with duty and rest.

That was something she had trouble imagining, but the wrought iron design was open and graceful.

I tried to force from my memory the mayhem and violence Grasso had wrought across the country.

The Apostolic miracles, to which the New Testament bears evidence, were wrought in the power of Christ, and were evidences to His church and to the world of His continued presence.

A wide porch stretched the length of the building, and above it were two balconies with black wrought iron banisters that curved out gracefully.

Maybe because it had the same theme of wrought iron and ivory as the hacienda - and maybe they had been visiting too long.

With wrought iron pipes bends may be arranged, as shown in fig.

The vine has been attacked by the Oidium Tuckeri, the Phylloxera vastatrix and the Peronospora viticola, which in rapid succession wrought great havoc in Italian vineyards.

He published, with a touching dedication to his wife, the treatise on Liberty, which they had wrought out together.

That wrought by man in destroying forests and cultivating the land will be no less effective, and already specimens in our herbaria alone represent species no longer to be found in a living state.

The bodies (or so much of them as ever existed, as only the fore parts remained) were hammered and wrought, like the bodies of the Egyptian figures.

The municipal elections in several of the larger cities, which had hitherto been regarded as strongholds of socialism, marked an overwhelming triumph for tJic constitutional parties, notably in Milan, Turin and Genoa, for the strikes had wrought as much harm to the working classe1 as to the bourgeoisie.

The Mongol invasion, in the latter part of that century, wrought their ruin, however, and from that time to the present there has been a steady decline in the commercial importance of the Euphrates route, and consequently also of the towns along its course, until at the present time it is only an avenue of ruins.

The king, Charles IV., looked on helplessly at the ruin wrought by the subservience of his kingdom to France since 1796, and he was seemingly blind to the criminal intrigues between his queen and the prime minister Godoy.

There was a waste of metal in these early rails owing to the excessive thickness of the vertical web, and subsequent improvements have consisted in adjusting the dimensions so as to combine strength with economy of metal, as well as in the substitution of steel for wrought iron (after the introduction of the Bessemer process) and in minute attention to the composition of the steel employed.

The evil was wrought, not by the regular armies of the cross who were inspired by noble ideals, but by the undisciplined mobs which, for the sake of plunder, associated themselves with the genuine enthusiasts.

I wanted to remind this troubled soul of the good he'd wrought but thoughts of Betsy prevented my saying the words.

Should a defect occur with a wrought iron boiler it is usually necessary for the purpose of repair to disconnect and remove the whole apparatus, the heating system of which it forms a part being in the meantime useless.

As in his active career he had wrought organic changes in the ordering, direction and control of fleets, so by his historic studies, pursued after his retirement, he helped greatly to effect, if he did not exclusively initiate, an equally momentous change in the popular, and even the professional, way of regarding sea-power and its conditions.

The country has a great wealth of minerals, silver having been found, and copper, lead, iron, coal and rock-salt being wrought with profit.

Surely there are hearts and hands ever ready to make it possible for generous intentions to be wrought into noble deeds.

The 8th duke of Argyll (Reign of Law) maintains that " miracles may be wrought by the selection and use of laws of which man knows and can know nothing, and which, if he did know, he could not employ."

There are wrought iron saddles and steel rollers on the piers.

I have wrought in these mines for the last 4 years.

These two conquests, wrought in the great island of the Ocean and in the great island of the Mediterranean, were the main works of the Normans after they had fully put on the character of a Christian and French-speaking people, in other words, after they had changed from Northmen into Normans.

Larger rivers, canals, roads, other railways and sometimes deep narrow valleys are crossed by bridges (q.v.) of timber, brick, stone, wrought iron or steel, and many of these structures rank among the largest engineering works in the world.

Israel) the corn, the new wine and the oil, and have bestowed on her silver and gold in abundance which they have wrought into a Baal image " (Hos.

Some idea of the enormous damage wrought by the collective attacks of individually small and weak animals may be gathered from the fact that a conservative estimate places the loss due to insect attacks on cotton in the United States at the astounding figure of $60,000,000 (£12,000,000) annually.

The sudden fall of Crispi wrought a great change in the character of Italian relations with foreign powers.

Within a short time his shrine at Canterbury became the resort of innumerable pilgrims. Plenary indulgences were given for a visit to the shrine, and an official register was kept to record the miracles wrought by the relics of the saint.

Comes in a brown dipped finish with wrought iron side panels & slatted roof.

He tells us that, at this time, God wrought with him as a master with a schoolboy whom he teaches.

Here the Grail is wrought of gold richly set with precious stones; it is carried in solemn procession, and the light issuing from it extinguishes that of the candles.

In 1656 a great fire completed the ruin wrought by the religious wars.

These are not the words of a man who is following a complete and authoritative poem; judging from the context of the other references to Bleheris he was rather a collector and versifier of short episodic tales, and it seems far more natural to understand Thomas as having wrought into one complete and consecutive form the various poems with which the name of Breri was associated, than to hold that that, or a similar, work had already been achieved by another.

The fuel, wood or charcoal, which served both to heat and to deoxidize the ore, has so strong a carburizing action that it would turn some of the resultant metal into " natural steel," which differs from wrought iron only in containing so much carbon that it is relatively hard and brittle in its natural state, and that it becomes intensely hard when quenched from a red heat in water.

Meanwhile Henry Cort had in 1784 very greatly simplified the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron.

The saints lives are full of puerile legend, and in not a few cases contain accounts of 13thcentury miracles wrought at special places, particularly with reference to the Dominicans.

Meanwhile a great change had been wrought in his circum P lo- stances.

Shipbuilding is carried on at Las Palmas; and the minor industries include the manufacture of cloth, drawn-linen (calado) work, silk, baskets, hats, &c. A group of Indian merchants, who employ coolie labour, produce silken, jute and cotton goods, Oriental embroideries, wrought silver, brass-ware, porcelain, carved sandal-wood, &c. The United Kingdom heads the import trade in coal, textiles, hardware, iron, soap, candles and colonial products.

The most elaborate specimen of this wrought work is the screen to the Rinuccini chapel in Santa Croce, Florence, of 1371, in which moulded pillars and window-like tracery have been wrought and modelled by the hammer with extraordinary skill (see Wyatt, Metal-Work of Middle Ages).

The screen to Bishop West's chapel at Ely, and that round Edward VI.'s tomb at Windsor, both made towards the end of the i 5th century, are the most magnificent English examples of wrought iron; and much wrought-iron work of great beauty was produced at the beginning of the 18th century, especially under the superintendence of Sir Christopher Wren (see Ebbetts, Iron Work of 17th and 18th Centuries, 1880).

The greed and tyranny of several of the commissioners, and the bigotry and mismanagement of well-meaning fanatics such as Cradock and Powell, soon wrought dire confusion throughout the whole Principality, so that a monster petition, signed alike by moderate Puritans and by High Churchmen, was prepared for presentation to parliament in 1652 by Colonel Edward Freeman, attorney-general for South Wales.

The gonfalionere Soderini offered him in vain, to do with it what he would, the huge half-spoiled block of marble out of which Michelangelo three years later wrought his "David."

All portions of the frame are united by hot rivets of mild steel or wrought iron, care being taken that the sum of the sectional areas of rivets affords in each case a sufficient amount of metal for the safe transfer of the stresses.

Rivets are either of wrought iron or of extra soft steel, with an ultimate tensile strength of 55,000 lb per sq.

On the front of the Museum the wrought iron balcony that originally adorned the stationmasters house at Bromsgrove can be seen.

The bellcote has a pitched roof surmounted by a wrought iron weathervane.

Doors from the kitchen and dining room lead out onto the wisteria covered terrace which is furnished with a wrought iron table and chairs.

A plowman and his great plow, now standing idle in the furrow, had in a day wrought a terrible havoc.