depended
- 1Simple past and past participle of depend.
The success of the harvest depended on timely rain that year.
For decades the town had depended on a single well for its water.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the finite past (the harvest depended on rain) and the participle after have (the town had depended on its well). Because the core senses are intransitive, a passive usually comes from the 'trust' sense with its preposition left stranded: she could always be depended on. In literary and heraldic description, the old 'hang down' meaning survives too. A medal depended from a ribbon, taking from rather than on.
She was the one colleague who could always be depended on.
A small gold cross depended from the collar of the order.
depended is a form of depend
depend, verb: To be determined or conditioned by something else, which serves as a necessary condition for it. Full entry
- Spelling
- depend → depended: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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