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What is the verb for dependent?

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depend
  1. (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
  2. (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
  3. (literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
  4. (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Despite this, the least developed countries still depend on trade for more of their income than rich countries.”
      “The things on which our lives depend are ones that we cannot understand or control.”
      “You can always depend on her to say or do the right thing regardless of the situation.”
depends
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depend
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rapidity with which you work through further evaluation depends on whether you have any other health complaints or not.”
      “The rapidity of that shift depends on the rate of advance of battery technology.”
      “The story's piquancy, after all, depends on the fact that, though they move in criminal circles, the characters are just folks, like you or me.”
dependeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of depend
dependest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of depend
depended
  1. simple past tense and past participle of depend
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The villagers were not consulted, even though the river was their only source of water and they depended on the sago trees for food.”
      “He was motivated to figure out the problems, but he had difficulty adding mixed numbers, for which he often depended on his partner.”
      “They sat in the large leather armchairs to wait the arrival of the man on whom so much depended.”
depending
  1. present participle of depend
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Known as the “middle passage,” this sea voyage could range from one to six months, depending on the weather.”
      “Blocks change their color depending on the biome they are in.”
      “Some of the Cape Triangles are very rare and expensive, depending on grade and condition.”
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