Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to assist
Participle: assisted
Gerund: assisting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | assist |
| you | assist |
| he;she;it | assists |
| we | assist |
| you | assist |
| they | assist |
Perfect
| I | have assisted |
| you | have assisted |
| he;she;it | has assisted |
| we | have assisted |
| you | have assisted |
| they | have assisted |
Past
| I | assisted |
| you | assisted |
| he;she;it | assisted |
| we | assisted |
| you | assisted |
| they | assisted |
Pluperfect
| I | had assisted |
| you | had assisted |
| he;she;it | had assisted |
| we | had assisted |
| you | had assisted |
| they | had assisted |
Future
| I | will assist |
| you | will assist |
| he;she;it | will assist |
| we | will assist |
| you | will assist |
| they | will assist |
Future Perfect
| I | will have assisted |
| you | will have assisted |
| he;she;it | will have assisted |
| we | will have assisted |
| you | will have assisted |
| they | will have assisted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | assist |
| you | assist |
| he;she;it | assist |
| we | assist |
| you | assist |
| they | assist |
Perfect
| I | have assisted |
| you | have assisted |
| he;she;it | have assisted |
| we | have assisted |
| you | have assisted |
| they | have assisted |
Imperfect
| I | assisted |
| you | assisted |
| he;she;it | assisted |
| we | assisted |
| you | assisted |
| they | assisted |
Pluperfect
| I | had assisted |
| you | had assisted |
| he;she;it | had assisted |
| we | had assisted |
| you | had assisted |
| they | had assisted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would assist |
| you | would assist |
| he;she;it | would assist |
| we | would assist |
| you | would assist |
| they | would assist |
Perfect
| I | would have assisted |
| you | would have assisted |
| he;she;it | would have assisted |
| we | would have assisted |
| you | would have assisted |
| they | would have assisted |
Imperative
| you | assist |
| we | Let's assist |
| you | assist |
Verbs conjugated like 'assist'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'assist'
absist,
agist,
assart,
assent,
assert,
assess,
assign,
assize,
assort,
assot,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- provide assistance
- help
- to provide assistance to someone or something
- abet, aid, befriend, bestead, come to someone's aid, give someone a hand, grip, help, help out, lend a hand, lend a helping hand, mend, relieve, stead, succor, succour, support, sustain
- to provide assistance
- chip in, help, help out, muck in, pitch in
- to give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole
- add, bestow, bring, chip in, do one's bit, donate, endow, fund, gift, grant, impart, invest, join, kick in, lend, participate, pitch in, pledge, provide, put up, set forward, supply, support, sweeten the kitty, contribute
- aid
- help, abet, befriend, serve, support, favor, promote, relieve
Antonyms
- to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle
- abet, expedite, facilitate, further, help, hurdle, nurture, hinder
- to provide assistance
- hinder, hurt
- to have a contrary or opposing effect or force on
- abet, help, reinforce, support, sustain, counteract
- aid
- hinder, impede, obstruct, thwart
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1426, from M.Fr.
assister "to stand by, help, assist," from L.
assistere "assist, stand by," from
ad- "to" +
sistere "take a stand, cause to stand," from PIE
*siste-, reduplicated form of base
*sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sporting sense (n.) is attested 1877 in baseball, 1925 in ice hockey.
Assistant (n.) is from 1541.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Proto-Italic *ad-
6. Latin ad-
7. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
8. Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
9. Proto-Italic *sistō
10. Latin sistō
11. Latin assistō
12. Old French assisterbor.
13. Middle English assisten
14. English assist
15. From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb). See: Latin '
assistō'.
Verbs referencing "assist"
Esperanto
asisti.
Sample Sentences
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[...] dinner-table; and there was less whist-playing than might have been expected. Still, with the exception of one lady, who had retired with some precipitation at dinner-time, immediately after being assisted to the finest cut of a very yellow boiled leg of mutton with very green capers, there were no invalids as yet; and walking, and smoking, and drinking of brandy-and-water (but always in the open air [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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It was materially assisted though, I have no doubt, by a heavy gale of wind, which came slowly up at sunset, when we were about ten days out, and raged with gradually increasing fury until morning, saving that it lulled for [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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It is a great and pleasant feature of all such institutions in America, that they are either supported by the State or assisted by the State; or (in the event of their not needing its helping hand ) that they act in concert with it, and are emphatically the people 's. I cannot but think, with a view to the principle and its [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I was assisted to this conclusion by seeing some of them gathered round the master of the boat, at one of the tables, drawing lots with all the anxieties and passions of gamesters depicted in their countenances; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Jim came out first, and carefully assisted out his old mother, who clung to his arm, and looked anxiously about, as if she expected the pursuer every moment.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The whole system of shipping and conveying these unfortunate persons, is one that stands in need of thorough revision. If any class deserve to be protected and assisted by the Government, it is that class who are banished from their native land in search of the bare means of subsistence. All that could be done for these poor people by the great compassion and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] party of choice spirits, and was helped home, between one and two o’clock at night, in a condition when the physical had decidedly attained the upper hand of the intellectual. Tom and Adolph assisted to get him composed for the night, the latter in high spirits, evidently regarding the matter as a good joke, and laughing heartily at the rusticity of Tom's horror, who really was simple enough to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Stand up. ” Tom stood up. “ Take off that stock ! ” and, as Tom, encumbered by his fetters, proceeded to do it, he assisted him, by pulling it, with no gentle hand, from his neck, and putting it in his pocket.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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One of them ran for a spade; the other two assisted George to carry the body to the wagon.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the strange lady was upward, like his own, proposed to take a state-room for her on the same boat with himself,—good-naturedly compassionating her feeble health, and desirous to do what he could to assist her.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)