made or decorated with evidence of workmanship; wrought, as with embroidery or tracery
worked in American English
(wɜːrkt)
adjective
that has undergone working
Word origin
[1700–10; work + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cirrus, cozy, hump, sliding scale-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: connected, integrated, registered, sheltered, truncated
Examples of 'worked' in a sentence
worked
Worked hard but struggled when England were forced on to the back foot.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
All related terms of 'worked'
ouvrage
work
wark
physical or mental effort directed towards doing or making something
work
People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.
yakka
work
interwork
to weave, blend , or twine together; intertwine
worked up
If someone is worked up , they are angry or upset .
hot-work
to shape (metal) when hot
work in
If you work one substance into another or work it in , you add it to the other substance and mix the two together thoroughly.
work off
If you work off energy, stress , or anger , you get rid of it by doing something that requires a lot of physical effort.
work on
to persuade or influence or attempt to persuade or influence
work out
If you work out a solution to a problem or mystery , you manage to find the solution by thinking or talking about it.
work up
If you work yourself up , you make yourself feel very upset or angry about something.
wrought-up
agitated or excited
cold work
the craft of shaping metal without heat
work back
to work overtime
work over
To work someone over means to beat them very violently.
work through
to resolve (a problem , esp an emotional one), by thinking about it repeatedly and hence lessening its intensity either by gaining insight or by becoming bored by it
work-rule
a form of industrial action in which employees adhere strictly to all the working rules laid down by their employers , with the deliberate intention of reducing the rate of working
work-to-rule
If workers work to rule , they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions .