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View synonyms for high-wrought
high-wrought
[ hahy-rawt ]
adjective
- highly agitated; overwrought.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of high-wrought1
First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences
But such high wrought feelings could not remain long in the same ecstatic tone.
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Is there not a distinctively womanly strain of emotion in the throbbing tides of her high-wrought melodious song?
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The spectators murmured a joyful applause, in high wrought expectation of the bloody game.
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Towards the end your high-wrought imagination can almost smell the sticking plaister, so vivid is the picture.
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But she put by the suggestion as the wild improbable coinage of her own high wrought imagination.
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