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worked

verbadjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//wɜːkt//
  • United States//wɝkt//

Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of worksimple past and past participle of work

adjective

  1. 1

    Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

    A heavy rich loam is, perhaps, the best of any; but carse lands, and well worked and manured clay soils, are also very suitable.

  2. 2

    Wrought. Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.

    ...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...

  3. 3

    Wrought. Decorated or embellished; embroidered.

    ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.

  4. 4

    Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.

    Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).