ASSISTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assisted mean? 

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

1. having help; often used as a combining form

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSISTED (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)

Antonym:

unassisted (lacking help)

 Context examples 

Assisted living is for adults who need help with everyday tasks.

(Assisted Living, Administration on Aging)

This may include: • Getting financial and legal documents in order • Looking into assisted living or nursing homes • Finding out what your health insurance and Medicare will cover

(Alzheimer's Caregivers, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

According to the authors, MOXI is the largest randomized, placebo-controlled trial to examine the effects of antioxidants, without additional assisted reproductive technology, on male infertility.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

Both master and man being in mourning assisted the idea.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In this I was much assisted by Mr. Mell, who had a liking for me that I am grateful to remember.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mason, supported by Mr. Rochester and the surgeon, seemed to walk with tolerable ease: they assisted him into the chaise; Carter followed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The result supports a theory that the origin of life may have been assisted by a supply of key molecules created in space and brought to Earth by comet and meteor impacts.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

At the very beginning of the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war proper being assisted by famine and disease.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a laparoscopic-assisted colectomy, several small incisions are made and a thin, lighted tube attached to a video camera is inserted through one opening to guide the surgery.

(Colectomy, NCI Dictionary)