Past tense of further

Forms of further

Furthered in a sentence

• Four years ago I furthered my education at a small, rural, New England arts college.1976 December 4, John W. Atteridg, “The First Time and All Those That Came After”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 23, page 12. From the entry freshperson
• His face was a construction of overlapping planes, almost cartoonistic, an illusion that was furthered by the black patch over his left eye socket.2015, Ellery Queen, What's in the Dark?. From the entry cartoonistic
• His father, who died a few months, was the P'an Ta-jen of Sir Aurel Stein's books, the scholarly administrator by whose friendly interest his explorations were so well furthered.1929, Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 8. From the entry Hsin-chiang

Meaning of further

1. verb To help forward; to assist.
2. verb To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
3. adjective More distant; relatively distant.

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• Further in Arabic

Questions about the past tense of further

What is the past tense of further?

The past tense of further is furthered.

What is the past participle of further?

The past participle of further is furthered.

Is further a regular or irregular verb?

Further is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.