benefited

VERB

help, enhance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advance aid assist contribute to favor further improve pay pay off promote serve

STRONG

advantage ameliorate avail better build profit relieve succor

WEAK

be good for do for one do the trick fill the bill make a killing make it work for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

block decrease halt hinder hurt impede injure obstruct stop thwart

STRONG

worsen

WEAK

harm

Example Sentences

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Yale Patron Held in Scheme That Benefited the University The news release called John D. Mazzuto one of the “greatest supporters” of the Yale University baseball team.

From New York Times • May 26, 2010

Benefited from the format, which invited simplicity and avoided confrontation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Benefited immensely by compression; only an hour long; but full of meat and matter.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 by Various