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Aided

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aid

  [eyd]
Use Aided in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
2. to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.
–verb (used without object)
3. to give help or assistance.
–noun
4. help or support; assistance.
5. a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.
6. aids, Manège.
a. Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight.
b. Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
7. aide-de-camp.
8. foreign aid.
9. a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
10. English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.
Origin:
1375–1425; (n.) late ME ayde < AF, OF aide, n. deriv. of aid(i)er < L adjūtāre to help (freq. of adjuvāre), equiv. to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- freq. suffix + -āre inf. suffix; (v.) < AF, OF aid(i)er < L, as above

Related forms:
aider, noun
aidful, adjective
aidless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See help. 2. abet, back, foster, advance. 4. succor; relief; subsidy, grant.

Antonyms:
2. hinder, frustrate.

Usage note:
Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings “an assisting person,” the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense “helper, assistant”: One of the senator's aides is calling. Aide in military use is short for aide-de-camp. It is also the spelling in nurse's aide.
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aid   (ād)   
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.

    1. An assistant or helper.

    2. A device that assists: visual aids such as slides.

    3. 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 adiūtāre, frequentative of adiuvāre, to help : ad-, to; see ad- in Indo-European roots + iuvāre, to help.]
aid'er n.
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Word Origin & History

aid  (n.)
1475, "help, assistance," from O.Fr. aide, earlier aiudha, from L.L. adjuta, from fem. pp. of L. adiuvare (pp. adiutus) "to give help to," from ad- "to" + juvare "to help," of unknown origin. The verb is 1483, from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adiuvare. Meaning "thing by which assistance is given" is recorded from 1597. Meaning "material help given by one country to another" is from 1940.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: 2aid
Function: noun
1 : an act of aiding aid to the principal>
2 : help given; especially : tangible means of assistance (as money or supplies) <aid to the disabled> aid and comfort to the enemy>
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: AID
Function: abbreviation
artificial insemination by donor
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Medical Dictionary

AID abbr.
artificial insemination donor

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