Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: aided
IPA transcription: ['eɪdɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: assisted, aided
    Meaning: having help; often used as a combining form
Usage examples
  • The question will naturally arise as to whether the child's hearing of speech can be aided by an electric or mechanical device.
  • The curious thing is that in that tale the prophet is aided by one of the few women who play much part in the hagiology of Islam.
  • I have since thought that I was greatly aided by my newness to this age. I have never, as a matter of fact, become entirely attuned to it.
  • In spite of himself, this thought, aided by other unpleasant contemplations, awoke in his heart a sensation of envious resentment toward Rodney.
  • His father was a plain farmer, hard-working, yet not very successful, but aided by a wife of uncommon energy and good spirits, notwithstanding her many cares.
  • I did not want to take his money, but the fact that such a sorry looking specimen of manhood as he had been when I aided him, was an expert handler of gems interested me.
  • "Throughout this trying period, Sir Douglas Haig, aided by his divisional commanders and his brigade commanders, held the line with marvelous tenacity and undaunted courage."
  • In the distance she looked a girlish twenty; close at hand various artifices aided her to pass for thirty; and it was only in the solitude of her own room that her real age was apparent.
  • This coalition, after repulsing the barbarian, soon afterwards split into two sections, which included the Hellenes who had revolted from the King, as well as those who had aided him in the war.
  • He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.