wrought

adj

1. Having been worked or prepared somehow.

   “Is that fence made out of wrought iron?”

verb

1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past, rare)simple past and past participle of work

   “What hath God wrought?”

   “My mariners, / Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—”

   “It was no very easy task, for the skiff lay amidships and was full of hamper, and the breaking of the heavier seas continually forced us to give over and hold on; but we all wrought like horses while we could.”

   “I need not describe his attainments as sheep-farmer or shepherd; he scarcely learned the barest rudiments; and the sage master of Clachlands trusted him only when he wrought under his own vigilant eye.”

   “That world in torment, those countless hands stretched upward in appeal, that murmur of infinite pain, the cry of the hungry, of the widow, of men sitting by tireless hearths, of children dying in mill and mine—the picture wrought on her so strongly, that she could not rest.”

2. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of wreak

   “We are, however, in danger of ignoring the more fundamental lessons, forgetting the imperative to root out and to curb within our societies at every level—most importantly that of the individual—the greed, avarice, corruption and hubris which has wrought and will wreak so much havoc, not just in our relatively rich countries, but has its impact most unfairly on the poorer, unsophisticated countries.”