assist

Meaning

Verb

1. To help.
2. To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
3. To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
4. To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
5. To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).

Noun

1. A helpful action or an act of giving.
2. The act of helping another player score points or goals
3. The act of helping another player score points or goals

Concepts

assist

help

aid

support

assistance

succor

relieve

abet

succour

advance

promote

avail

benefit

sustain

attend to

help out

accomodate

helping

second

further

relief

accommodate

back up

subsidize

favor

lend a hand

befriend

serve

be of service

give aid

allowance

encourage

patronize

prop

back

cooperate

uphold

profit

forward

attend

wait on

hand

contribute

remedy

boost

contribution

backing

rescue

save

ministration

correct

squeeze

co-operate

guide

stand by

give a hand to

take part in

mediate

use as an intermediary

give a helping hand

give assistance to

keep up

distribute

share

do a good turn

maintain

sponsor

nourish

bestead

facilitate

subserve

upraise

side with

witness for

do instead of

give a friendly hand

be useful, beneficial

influence

be of assistance

jonit

help oneself

give support

appease

calm

pacify

be of use

do good to

cart

helping hand

lift

succorer

succourer

benefact

stooge

subsidise

chip in

dole

grant

handout

ball

delivery

pitch

service

backstay

brace

comfort

modillion

reinforcement

rest

sprag

subsidy

subvention

helpful

espouse

accompany

work

defend

help each other

economically

assistant

bus

class

fleet

group

party

time

vessel

salvation

join

put together

set up

prop up

Help

aid money

aidance

ancilla

bailout

leg up

patronage

financial aid

financial assistance

means

go along to

mind

give somebody a hand

accourage

bolster up

brace up

reenforce

reinvigorate

tone up

underpin

babysit

guard

achieve

rise

approve

wave

secondary

administer

Hyphenated as

as‧sist

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈsɪst/

Etymology

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

Sentences

Therefore , the scale has a very limited ability to assist in disaster-aid deployment .