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Wrought vs Drought - What's the difference?

wrought | drought |

As an adjective wrought

is having been worked or prepared somehow.

As a verb wrought

is past tense of work.

As a noun drought is

a period of below average rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.

wrought

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having been worked or prepared somehow.
    • Is that fence made out of wrought iron?

    Antonyms

    * unwrought

    Derived terms

    * wrought iron * wrought-up

    Verb

    (head)
  • (work)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

    Usage notes

    * In modern English, wrought is usually not interchangeable with worked, the more common contemporary past and past participle of work. * Wrought often lends a more archaic flavor. * The separation of wrought'' from ''work'' has also occurred because while ''work'' can be either intransitive or transitive, it is more commonly intransitive, and ''wrought is transitive only. * Because the phrase "work havoc" has become uncommon in modern English, its past tense "wrought havoc" is sometimes misinterpreted as being a past tense of "wreak havoc".

    Derived terms

    * overwrought English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms

    drought

    English

    Alternative forms

    * drouth

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of below average rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought , and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}
  • (by extension, informal) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.