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benefited

benefited is the simple past and past participle of benefit.

Meaning of benefit

Verb

benefit (third-person singular simple present benefits, present participle benefiting or benefitting, simple past and past participle benefited or benefitted)

  1. (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
    • […] I will repent of the good; wherewith I saide I would benefite them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 18:10
  2. (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
    • Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329

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Forms of benefited

alternative formbenefitted

Questions about benefited

What is benefited the simple past and past participle of?
Benefited is the simple past and past participle of benefit.

Words near benefited in the dictionary

  1. benefit societies
  2. benefit society
  3. benefit tourism
  4. benefitable
  5. benefite
  6. benefited
  7. benefiter
  8. benefiters
  9. benefites
  10. benefitest
  11. benefiteth

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