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AIDED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having help; often used as a combining form

Synonyms:

aided; assisted

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

motor-assisted (relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power)

power-assisted (supplementing or replacing manual effort)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb aid

Credits

 Context examples: 

You have aided in thwarting me; now you shall come to my call. When my brain says Come! to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding; and to that end this!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must be aided, and by that hand: and aided I was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And he aided and abetted them in their unfriendly designs, for going to work was farthest from his thoughts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You have condoned a felony, and you have aided the escape of a murderer, for I cannot doubt that any money which was taken by James Wilder to aid his accomplice in his flight came from your Grace’s purse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I overcame the extreme reluctance of the natives—a reluctance which extends even to talk upon the subject—and by judicious persuasion and gifts, aided, I will admit, by some threats of coercion, I got two of them to act as guides.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Every moment was drive, drive, drive, and Joe was the masterful shepherd of moments, herding them carefully, never losing one, counting them over like a miser counting gold, working on in a frenzy, toil-mad, a feverish machine, aided ably by that other machine that thought of itself as once having been one Martin Eden, a man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You aided her to escape.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)