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high-wrought

[ hahy-rawt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1595–1605

But such high wrought feelings could not remain long in the same ecstatic tone.

Is there not a distinctively womanly strain of emotion in the throbbing tides of her high-wrought melodious song?

The spectators murmured a joyful applause, in high wrought expectation of the bloody game.

Towards the end your high-wrought imagination can almost smell the sticking plaister, so vivid is the picture.

But she put by the suggestion as the wild improbable coinage of her own high wrought imagination.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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