assist

Definition

  • verb: to give support or help
  • verb: to give usually supplementary support or aid to
  • usually singular

Examples

  • The President was 'assisted' with his speech. = The President was 'assisted' in writing his speech.

  • a doctor who has been involved in several 'assisted suicides'

  • Another doctor 'assisted' him with the operation.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Now, to find a way out of here. Yuck! Look around, Sherman. These tombs are lined with hieroglyphics... designed to assist the pharaohs' souls in their journey to the afterlife. And they may assist us as well. Oh, this depicts the god Anubis (..)
    2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman