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unaided

[eyd]

Origin

verb (used with object)

to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.

to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.

verb (used without object)

to give help or assistance.

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noun

help or support; assistance.

a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.

aids, Manège.

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.

Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.

aide-de-camp.

foreign aid.

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a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.

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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.

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Origin:
1375–1425; (noun) late Middle English ayde < Anglo-French, Old French aide, noun derivative of aid(i)er < Latin adjūtāre to help (frequentative of adjuvāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- frequentative suffix + -āre infinitive suffix; (v.) < Anglo-French, Old French aid(i)er < Latin, as above

Related forms

aid·er, noun

aid·ful, adjective

aid·less, adjective

un·aid·ed, adjective

un·aid·ed·ly, adverb

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un·aid·ing, adjective

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Can be confused: 1. aid, aide (see usage note at the current entry); 2. aides, aids, AIDS.

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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unaided (ʌnˈeɪdɪd)

—*adj*
	without having received any help

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Word Origin & History

aid

late 15c., from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adiuvare (pp. adjutus) "give help to" (see adjutant).

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unaided

1667, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of aid.

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Medical Dictionary

AID abbr.
artificial insemination donor