ASSISTED Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

assisted

verb

past tense of assist

as in aided

to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end you can assist families in need by donating old clothes in good condition

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Recent Examples of assisted In an earlier Facebook video, Mrvan thanked first responders who have assisted in areas across Northwest Indiana, including LaPorte, Michigan City, Portage, Hammond, Gary, East Chicago, Schererville and Dyer. — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 The home sustained extensive damage, and the American Red Cross assisted the six displaced adults. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 He will be assisted by two more East African officials for UEFA’s preseason showpiece event in Djibouti’s Liban Ahmed and Stephen Yiembe from Kenya. — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026 An off-duty Idaho state trooper who assisted law enforcement during a chaotic mass shooting that began at an In-N-Out Burger spoke out for the first time on Tuesday. — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026 In June, an internal audit in Albany, Georgia, assisted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, found five Albany Police officers had been using the Flock license plate camera system for personal searches. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 Southfield police was assisted by the Oakland County Violent Gang Task Force (a division of the FBI), and the Oak Park and Lathrup Village police assisted with crowd control and scene preservation. — Susan Bromley, Freep.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Cowell, meanwhile, saw his acts at his Malibu estate, where he was assisted by singer Normani and singer and producer Poo Bear. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026 In this mise-en-scène, assisted dying is portrayed as a relational, dignified, and visually pleasing act. — Vanessa Rampton, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026

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Holmes had his fifth scoreless start this season and was aided by his defense.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
The Acalica project went against their space traveler’s observe-and-report prime directive, so, aided by Henry Thorpe, Djen exposed Ruby and the other aliens, forcing them to leave Earth and her to create an environment-saving technology unabated.

— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026

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Born in Vienna to a Russian mother and Nigerian father, Ndukwe learned English at school from an early age and that has helped since moving to Merseyside.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
That cost millions of layoffs, but helped propel China to overtake Japan as the second-largest economy behind the United States in 2010.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026