assist
Noun · VerbUS[uh-sist]/əˈsɪst/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Verb (3)assists, assisted, assisting
- give help or assistance; be of service“Everyone helped out during the earthquake”“Can you help me carry this table?”“She never helps around the house”Synonyms: helpaidMore general support, back upMore specific care, facilitate, serve, expedite, avail, help out, benefact, bootstrap, succor, subserve
- act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive functionMore general workMore specific abet, protect
- work for, or be a servant to“May I serve you?”“She attends the old lady in the wheelchair”“Can you wait on our table, please?”“Is a salesperson assisting you?”“The minister served the King for many years”Synonyms: serveattend towait onattendMore general help, aidMore specific valet, fagSimilar serve
Noun (2)assists
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose“he gave me an assist with the housework”“could not walk without assistance”“rescue party went to their aid”“offered his help in unloading”Synonyms: aidassistancehelpType of activityKinds support, service, relief, boost, recourse, thanks, self-help, hand, lift, facilitation +2 more
- (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good playType of maneuver, manoeuvre
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Translations
Verb to help
Noun statistical recognition of making a pass
- French
- passe décisive
- Turkish
- asist
- Russian
- результати́вная переда́ча rezulʹtatívnaja peredáča
- Arabic
- تَمْرِيرَة حَاسِمَة tamrīra ḥāsima
- Polish
- asysta
- Korean
- 어시스트 eosiseuteu
- Indonesian
- asis
- Vietnamese
- kiến tạo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 助攻 zhùgōng
- Finnish
- syöttö
2 more languages
- Icelandic
- stoðsending
- Serbo-Croatian
- asistencija
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
As·sist′ (…), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Assisted; present participle & verbal noun Assisting.]
Origin: L. assistere; ad + sistere to cause to stand, to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. assister. See Stand.
To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
Assist me, knight. I am undone!— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
As·sist′ intransitive verb
1. To lend aid; to help.
With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end.— John Milton
2. To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. A Gallicism Gibbon. Prescott.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54