Farther, farthest or further, furthest?
Farther and further are comparative adverbs or adjectives. They are the irregular comparative forms of far. We use them to talk about distance. There is no difference in meaning between them. Further is more common: …

Examples of furthered

furthered

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And, as with male fashions, women's wear included a growing range of more casual garments which furthered the visual conflation of high and low fashions.
In addition, there might also have been contextual conditions that furthered civic changes, including the new federal policies stressed by civic reorganization theorists.
Communication within each ' national culture ' was to be furthered by schooling in its language, whereas communication across these nationalcultural boundaries received little attention.
For instance, my interest in voting could be furthered by a car owner who could drive me to the polling station.
Whereas the farmers furthered the participation in the market of many unmarried women, they undermined the trade of married male market gardeners and their families.
The good police chemist, in turn, would investigate and explain those chemical processes - and only those processes - that furthered the common welfare.
Ironically, as the issue of cause-of-death classification shaped and sharpened the identity of the medical and statistical professions, it also temporarily furthered interdisciplinarity.
His allies were the middle class reformers who expressed and furthered their distance from the masses precisely through their gendered respectability.
He engaged in the politics of the middle ground in a way that furthered his own interests.
What furthered discontent among them and in turn caused them to harden their positions was the support given by colonial administrators to their opponents.
This perspective is furthered by the two volumes reviewed here.
Such national policy autonomy was furthered by the output focus of the pre-accession period.
The sense of not quite squaring up to the issues is furthered in the individual volume prefaces.
When an intimate attachment exists between a child donor and a recipient, the interests of the child donor will be furthered by the donation.
More generally, my interest in certain laws being passed or repealed can be furthered only by citizens and representatives.
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