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Wormed vs Worked - What's the difference?

wormed | worked |

As adjectives the difference between wormed and worked

is that wormed is affected with woodworm while worked is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

As verbs the difference between wormed and worked

is that wormed is (worm) while worked is (work).

wormed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • affected with woodworm
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through and through, and little better than a rotten shell. So it was that I had some ado to get over it, not daring either to kneel upon it or to bring much weight to bear with my hand, lest it should go through.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (worm)

    • Anagrams

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    worked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (work)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
  • * 1811 , William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland , page 73:
    • A heavy rich loam'' is, perhaps, the best of any; but ''carse'' lands, and well worked and manured ''clay soils, are also very suitable.
  • Wrought.
  • # Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
  • #* 1832 , James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage , page 39:
  • ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
  • # Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
  • #* 1803 , William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire , page 84:
  • ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
  • Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
  • * 1835 , R.H. Nicholls and Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant , page 108:
    • Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.

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