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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Lumentum and Coherent have benefited from a surge in Big Tech spending on AI infrastructure that has boosted their share prices.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Mahan said he values unions, in part because he grew up in a union household and benefited from the high-quality healthcare that provided, included when he was hospitalized for a collapsed lung as a teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Jenson is not the only young person in the area who has benefited from taking up the activity.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

As a result of this decision, thousands of desperate patients have lost a chance at being among the one-third who have failed other courses of treatment and have already benefited from the drug in trials.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

I flinched at the slumming comment, but the truth was our businesses benefited from the tourism.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu