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Upbrought vs Upwrought - What's the difference?

upbrought | upwrought |

As a verb upbrought

is (upbring).

As an adjective upwrought is

wrought-up.

upbrought

English

Verb

(head)
  • (upbring)

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    upbring

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To bring up.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
  • *:From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.

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    upwrought

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wrought-up
  • * 1934 , Oscar W. Firkins, Memoirs and Letters
    • For a short time he served his father as timekeeper in a lumber yard in North Dakota — a miserable experience for him, as can readily be imagined. He came home unhappy, in a nervously upwrought state, began to shun his former associates