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worked
/wɝkt/
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What does worked mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of work
adjective
- Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
- Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
- Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
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IPA pronunciation
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When a woman chose to be a mother, she allowed the child-longing to grow within her till it worked its natural miracle.
His white, well-kept hands were his result,—the evidence that he had worked out his life successfully in the way that pleased him.
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When a disease has worked its way down to that level, it may fairly be said to be out of the system.
Elnora, born among such scenes, worked eagerly, but to the city man, recently from a hospital, they seemed too good to miss.
You might easily pick out these pacemakers, for they worked under the eye of the bosses, and they worked like men possessed.