circumstanced
SaySUR-kuhm-stanstUS/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstænst/AUS/ˈsɜːkəmstænst/UKSUR-kuhm-stuhnst/ˈsɜːkəmst(ə)nst/
- 1Placed in a particular situation or set of living conditions.
Like being dealt a certain hand of cards: your situation is set by what you are given.
A family that is well circumstanced can afford a bigger house.
They were poorly circumstanced after both parents lost their jobs.
Similarsituated, positioned
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- 2Simple past tense and past participle of circumstance. Use it for something that already happened.
The war circumstanced many families into sudden poverty.
Fate had circumstanced them so that escape was impossible.
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circumstanced is a form of circumstance
- Forms
- circumstancecircumstances he/she/itcircumstancing -ing formcircumstanced past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- circumstance → circumstanced: add -d
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