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Assisted   /əsˈɪstəd/  /əsˈɪstɪd/   Listen
verb
Assist  v. t.  (past & past part. assisted; pres. part. assisting)  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. "Assist me, knight. I am undone!"
Synonyms: To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.


Assist  v. i.  
1.
To lend aid; to help. "With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end."
2.
To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. (A Gallicism)





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"Assisted" Quotes from Famous Books



... many days, even weeks, before that event could happen. The messenger would travel to Rome night and day, but it was calculated that nearly three weeks must elapse before his return. Mr. Ferrars then went to the Carlton Club, which he had assisted in forming three or four years before, and had established in a house of modern dimensions in Charles Street, St. James. It was called then the Charles Street gang, and none but the thoroughgoing cared to belong to it. Now ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... his feet again, while we assisted him, in spite of what he had said, to get up his horse. The animal's leg did not appear to be strained, and Dick quickly again climbed into ...
— Adventures in the Far West • W.H.G. Kingston
... not catch the girl's reply as Major Verney assisted her into the carriage and they drove ...
— Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration • Leona Dalrymple
... that the first ten days of the month will bring this master of the choir. The present season he arrived on the 6th—the veery with him; last year he was absent until the 8th; while on the two years preceding he assisted ...
— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey
... and despairing wails, the satanic work of ejecting the tenement dwellers went on that day. Ames's hirelings, with loaded rifles, assisted the constables and city police in the miserable work, themselves cursing often because of the keen blasts that nipped their ears and numbed their well-cased limbs. More than one tiny, wailing babe was frozen at the breast ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking


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