profited
- 1Simple past and past participle of profit.
The company profited handsomely from the new trade route.
Investors who acted early profited as the market climbed.
Note
One spelling serves both past forms, and it keeps a single t: profited, not profitted. The construction shows which meaning is at work. With from or by, it is intransitive and means gaining: she profited from the delay. With a direct object, it means benefiting someone: the advice profited him little. That transitive use now sounds formal, so the from-construction is the safer everyday choice.
The advice profited him little in the end.
What has it profited anyone to wait?
profited is a form of profit
profit, verb: To gain money or some other benefit from something, sometimes by taking unfair advantage of a situation or of other people. Full entry
- Spelling
- profit → profited: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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