worked

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adjective

ˈwərkt 

: that has been subjected to some process of development, treatment, or manufacture

a newly worked field

worked

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past tense and past participle of work entry 1

Examples of worked in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Always cut your biscuits close together to reduce the amount of scraps that need to be re-worked. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025

Those theories never quite worked, and Albert Einstein eventually provided a deeper explanation of gravity as a distortion of space and time. — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1682, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing worked

• worked a treat
• worked up

Rhymes for worked

• networked
• reworked
• unworked
• irked
• jerked
• lurked
• perked
• quirked
• shirked
• smirked
• overworked