aided

aid

 (ād)

v. aid·ed, aid·ing, aids

v.tr.

To provide assistance, support, or relief to: aided the researchers in their discovery; aided the prisoners' attempt to escape.

v.intr.

To provide assistance, support, or relief: aided in the effort to improve services to the elderly.

n.

1. The act or result of helping; assistance: gave aid to the enemy.

2.

a. Something that provides help, support, or relief, such as money or supplies: sent medical aid to the region after the storm.

b. Something, such as a device, that provides improvement: visual aids such as slides.

3.

a. An assistant or helper.

b. An aide or aide-de-camp.

4. A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.

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[Middle English aiden, from Old French aider, from Latin adiūtāre, frequentative of adiuvāre, to help : ad-, to; see ad- in Indo-European roots + iuvāre, to help.]

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aid′er n.

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

aided - having help; often used as a combining form assisted

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