Crossword clues for worked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Worked (w[^u]rkt), or Wrought (r[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Working.] [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa['u]rkjan. [root]145. See Work, n.]
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To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness?
--Shak.Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you.
--Ex. v. 18.Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass.
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Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
We bend to that the working of the heart.
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Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.
--Rom. viii. 28.This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught.
--Locke.She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him.
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To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded.
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To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
Confused with working sands and rolling waves.
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To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind.
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To ferment, as a liquid.
The working of beer when the barm is put in.
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To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.
--Grew.To work at, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.
To work to windward (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward.
--Mar. Dict.
Wiktionary
1 designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree. 2 wrought. 3 # Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour. 4 # decorated or embellished; embroidered. 5 Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required. v
(en-past of: work)
WordNet
Usage examples of "worked".
But time had worked its curative powers, and soon the letters were abrim with exciting events of this richest court in all the Middle Kingdoms, as well as with pride of new skills mastered.
While they worked, Lukien leaned against the wagon, absently watching the stars appear.
The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.
Veneziano, then a research fellow at CERN, the European accelerator laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, had worked on aspects of this problem for a number of years, until one day he came upon a striking revelation.
And although she had worked to wrest control of the shifter pack from his nephew Acier, in the end Acier had been victorious.
After a few years that archival section is going to begin filling up with some great actionable concepts, worked out in relatively valid detail.
Now, he was muttering about things called acupressure and shiatsu while he worked on and around it.
Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on a day, the most illustrious festival of his life, they would adorn him with the rich garments which they had worked with their own hands.
Men came out from stores and counting houses, eager to have a hand in forestalling the embargo, and worked, adrip with perspiration, alongside stevedores and wharf rats and seamen and teamsters and farmers.
Roy under a cloud of suspicion, it would have worked to his discredit with the naval authorities, and might have resulted in our aeroplane being denied a place in the trials.
It worked, up until he tried to beat some Afghani smugglers at their own game.
It took months, however, before the reformers actually worked out the full, concrete implications of their ambitious agenda and conveyed this to the other side.
The rise of the cities, the aggrandizement of the princes, and the change to a commercial from a feudal society all worked to the disadvantage of the smaller nobility and gentry.
He held Cric back, hiding behind some scrub, while agile Chipmunk worked his way into position.
What worked with the wary antelope should work for agile honkers as well.