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Assist   /əsˈɪst/   Listen
Assist

verb
(past & past part. assisted; pres. part. assisting)
1.
Give help or assistance; be of service.  Synonyms: aid, help.  "Can you help me carry this table?" , "She never helps around the house"
2.
Act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function.
3.
Work for or be a servant to.  Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on.  "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair" , "Can you wait on our table, please?" , "Is a salesperson assisting you?" , "The minister served the King for many years"
noun
1.
The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.  Synonyms: aid, assistance, help.  "Could not walk without assistance" , "Rescue party went to their aid" , "Offered his help in unloading"
2.
(sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play.



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"Assist" Quotes from Famous Books



... column are arranged in three slight and graceful curves. These curves not only give beauty and strength to the bony framework of the body, but also assist in the formation of cavities for important internal organs. This arrangement of elastic pads between the vertebrae supplies the spine with so many elastic springs, which serve to break the effect of shock to the brain and the spinal cord ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
... were glassy and his dark cheek heavily flushed when at four o'clock he hastened out to assist his mother from her carriage, and the color fled from her beautiful face; her heart seemed to stand still and her hand trembled violently as she noted it all, but took his arm without a word, and, with Maidie silently following, went up the steps and into the little ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... hospital for women and a ward therein for slaves, besides their principal labors for the succor of the poor and needy of all classes. They provide food and water for the poor prisoners, aid to the inmates of Santa Potenciana, and homes for orphan boys; and assist many transient persons. They also settle many quarrels and reclaim ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XIV., 1606-1609 • Various
... than Red, yet we have try'd, that by steeping that Plant a Night even in Cold water, it would afford a very deep Yellow or Reddish Tincture without the help of the Oyl of Tartar, which seems to do little more than assist the Water to extract more nimbly a plenty of that Red Tincture, wherewith the Leaves of Senna do of themselves abound, and having taken off the Tincture of Senna, made only with fair Water, before it grew ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle
... beached, I greeted her with extended eager hands to assist her ashore, for the klootchman is getting to be an old woman; albeit she paddles against tidewater like a ...
— Legends of Vancouver • E. Pauline Johnson


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