assisted
uh-SIS-tid/əˈsɪstɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of assist.
Volunteers assisted the rescue teams throughout the night.
She has assisted hundreds of students over her teaching career.
Note
One regular spelling does two jobs: the simple past stands alone (volunteers assisted the teams), while the participle follows have in the perfect or be in the passive (the teams were assisted). Watch the preposition, though. To have assisted at an event once meant simply to have attended it, an archaic use, so a guest who assisted at a ceremony in older prose may only have been present.
assisted is a form of assist
assist, verb: To give help or support to a person or effort. Full entry
- Spelling
- assist → assisted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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