"wrote" meaning in English

See wrote in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɹəʊt/ [UK], /ɹoʊt/ [US] Audio: en-us-wrote.ogg
Rhymes: -əʊt Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} wrote
  1. simple past of write Tags: form-of, past Form of: write
    Sense id: en-wrote-en-verb-lZKbtj3l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 34 34 14 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 32 32 14 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 32 15 21
  2. (now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of write Tags: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Form of: write
    Sense id: en-wrote-en-verb-XVMerlh5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 34 34 14 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 32 32 14 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 32 15 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: that's all she wrote
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          "text": "I take it very kind in the gentleman to have wrote up to you and said, “let Mrs Gamp take care of him till I come home;” but ev’rythink he does is kind. There an’t a many like him. If there was, we shouldn’t want no churches.’",
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          "ref": "2004 [1995], Celeste Snowber, Embodied Prayer: Toward a Wholeness of Body, Mind, and Soul, Wood Lake Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "It has been almost ten years since I have wrote Embodied Prayer. Much has happened in my own life, including profound loss through divorce, and changes in my vocational life. I am not the same person that I was when I wrote it, and neither is my body, or rather what I would call my \"bodysoul\".",
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