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aid  (d)
intr. & tr.v. aid·ed, aid·ing, aids
To help or furnish with help, support, or relief. See Synonyms at help.
n.
1. The act or result of helping; assistance.
2.
a. An assistant or helper.
b. A device that assists: visual aids such as slides.
c. A hearing aid.
3. An aide or aide-de-camp.
4. A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.
[Middle English aiden, from Old French aider, from Latin aditre, frequentative of adiuvre, to help : ad-, to; see ad- in Indo-European roots + iuvre, to help.]
aider n.
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Adj.1.aided - having help; often used as a combining form
assisted


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In the matter of Treason the pig would appear To have aided, but scarcely abetted: While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear, If you grant the plea 'never indebted.
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It was the father of our new acquaintance, the Judge, who first began to reascend in the scale of society; and in this undertaking he was not a little assisted by a marriage, which aided in furnishing the means of educating his only son in a rather better manner than the low state of the common schools of Pennsylvania could promise; or than had been the practice in the family for the two or three preceding generations.
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