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ASSISTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having help; often used as a combining form
Synonyms:
aided; assisted
Classified under:
Similar:
motor-assisted (relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power)
power-assisted (supplementing or replacing manual effort)
Antonym:
unassisted (lacking help)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb assist
Context examples:
"Certainly," said Elinor; "and assisted by her liberality, I hope you may yet live to be in easy circumstances."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He assisted her to dismount, and dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
In trials for detection of breast cancer, computer-assisted interpretation of the digital image helps to determine whether a local abnormality in breast tissue temperature is present, which may indicate the presence of disease.
(Computerized Thermal Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It can also happen in assisted living facilities or nursing homes.
(Elder Abuse, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
LASIK - laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis - is one of the most common.
(Laser Eye Surgery, NIH)
When it is possible to find the cause, treatments may include medicines, surgery, or assisted reproductive technologies.
(Female Infertility, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)
She was all alive again directly, and among the most active in being useful to Fanny, in detecting her to be wetter than she would at first allow, and providing her with dry clothes; and Fanny, after being obliged to submit to all this attention, and to being assisted and waited on by mistresses and maids, being also obliged, on returning downstairs, to be fixed in their drawing-room for an hour while the rain continued, the blessing of something fresh to see and think of was thus extended to Miss Crawford, and might carry on her spirits to the period of dressing and dinner.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Also called animal-assisted therapy.
(Pet-facilitated therapy, NCI Dictionary)
