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Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort).

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Usage examples (27)
  • When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
  • The patient on whom this miraculous cure was wrought is here described, v. 2.
  • I saw what the murderous, brutal regime of Saddam Hussein wrought on that country through his party and their fedayeen henchmen.
  • Such, it appears, was the case; and the ruin wrought by that Erith catastrophe would, it was hoped, be paralleled at Fort Fisher.
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  • Another word that sounds like wrought which means formed or shaped, is rot which means to go bad.
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