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v. To help or furnish with help, support, or relief. See Synonyms at help.

n. The act or result of helping; assistance.

n. An assistant or helper.

n. A device that assists: visual aids such as slides.

n. A hearing aid.

n. An aide or aide-de-camp.

n. A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.

v. To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

n. Help; assistance; succor, relief.

n. The person who promotes or helps in something being done; a helper; an assistant.

n. Something which helps; a material source of help.

n. A historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort

n. An exchequer loan.

n. A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.

n. An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation

v. To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

n. Help; succor; assistance; relief.

n. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.

n. A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

n. A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

n. An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.

To help; assist; afford support or relief; promote the desire, purpose, or action of: as, to aid a person in his business, or an animal in its efforts; to aid a medicine in its operation.

To promote the course or accomplishment of; help in advancing or bringing about; forward; facilitate: as, to aid the recovery of a patient, or the operation of a machine; to aid one's designs.

n. Help; succor; support; assistance.

n. He who or that which aids or yields assistance; a helper; an auxiliary; an assistant: as, Coleridge's “Aids to Reflection.”

n. In feudal law, a customary payment made by a tenant or vassal to his lord, originally a voluntary gift; hence, in English history, applied to the forms of taxation employed by the crown between the Norman conquest and the fourteenth century.

n. An aide-de-camp: so called by abbreviation.

n. plural In the manège, the helps by which a horseman contributes toward the motion or action required of a horse, as by a judicious use of the heel, leg, rein, or spur.

n. A deep gutter cut across plowed land.

n. A reach in a river.

n. In the navy, an officer on the staff of an admiral whose duties are similar to those of an aide-de-camp to a general.

n. money to support a worthy person or cause

v. give help or assistance; be of service

n. the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

n. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

v. improve the condition of

n. a resource

"Just a week after announcing plans to repay $45 billion in aid from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the nation's largest lender said Wednesday it had cut a check to the government for the full amount."

aided    aides    aiding    aids   

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aide-de-camp    aidant    aide   

aidless    first aid    aidman    aidful    aid climbing    aidable    aider    aidance   

relieve    succor    help    support    coöperate    sustain    promote    befriend    assist    assistance   

Blade    Cade    Crusade    Dade    Jade    Kincaid    Slade    Wade    ade    afraid   

assistance    support    service    care    benefit    mean    supply    influence    development    presence