crafted

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of craft.

   The artisan crafted each vase by hand over several weeks.

   Lawmakers crafted the bill through months of difficult negotiation.

   Note

   A regular verb gives one -ed spelling for both forms, so she crafted and it was crafted look alike; have or be marks the perfect and the passive. The form carries all of craft's range: making by hand with skill, developing something like a plan or a bill, and, in games, combining items into armor or medicine. Behind it stands the noun craft, a skill that could also shade into guile.

2. 2
   adjective

   Made or produced through a manufacturing process, rather than occurring naturally.

   The factory ships thousands of crafted components every day.

   Each crafted unit must pass inspection before it leaves the plant.

   Similarmanufactured, fabricated

   Oppositenatural

   Note

   Most at home with an adverb fused to its front: a well-crafted table is one built with care, and it lasts. Before a noun the compound takes a hyphen. The adjective is also gradable (more crafted, most crafted), which marks it as a true adjective rather than simply the verb's past participle standing before a noun.

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