Dictionary

forwrought en · ADJ

Etymology

From forwork, equivalent to for- + wrought.

Meanings

1. Worked-up; agitated; troubled.
   • [...] Arthur; a fearful night it was: there was a sough in the air, a sound drawing nigh like that of a host marching:- — but you're looking pale and forwrought, man; is any thing ailing ye? 1829, John Carne, Stratton Hill: A Tale of the Civil Wars - Volume 1 - Page 131:
2. Blocked; obstructed.
   • And Æthelwold sat within the ham, with the men that to him had bowed, and he had forwrought [obstructed] all the gates in, and said that he would either there live or there lie. Thereupon rode the ætheling on night away, and sought the [...] 1881, Grant Allen, Early Britain: Anglo-Saxon Britain:

Forms

forwrought en · VERB

Etymology

From forwork, equivalent to for- + wrought.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of forwork
   form of forwork