Meaning & use
benefitted
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Gained an advantage or improvement from something; a past-tense form of "benefit."
See it in a sentence
The whole team benefitted from her calm leadership during the crisis.
Students benefitted greatly from the smaller class sizes.
A note on using this word
Both "benefited" and "benefitted" are accepted spellings of the past tense, with the single-t form more common in American English and the double-t form more common in British English.
Words with a similar meaning
profitedgained
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Words with an opposite meaning
suffered
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