AIDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aided mean? 

• AIDED (adjective)
  The adjective AIDED has 1 sense:

1. having help; often used as a combining form

  Familiarity information: AIDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having help; often used as a combining form

Synonyms:

aided; assisted

Similar:

motor-assisted (relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power)

power-assisted (supplementing or replacing manual effort)

 Context examples 

Clinging to the woodwork, staggering with the roll of the ship, and aided by the cook, I managed to slip into a rough woollen undershirt.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is incredible that this blood-bespattered room contained no trace which could have aided us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A roll of the steamer aided him, and he was through, hanging by his hands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Interaction of activated cytotoxic T cells is aided by increased expression of LFA-1, a cell-adhesion molecule that binds to ICAM on target cells.

(Cytotoxic T Cell Surface Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This simple approach could improve diagnosis of diseases by medical professionals, or by patients themselves at home, aided by artificial intelligence software.

(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)

I don't know whether they were entirely of your doing; probably a master aided you?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This discovery, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, was aided by Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

Aided by advanced stem cell technology and tissue chips, National Institutes of Health - funded researchers used stem cells originally derived from a person’s skin to recreate interactions between blood vessels and neurons that may occur early in the formation of the fetal human spinal cord.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

From then onwards, we were in truth masters of the plateau, for the natives looked upon us with a mixture of fear and gratitude, since by our strange powers we had aided them to destroy their hereditary foe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)