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Definition of Assist

Assist

  1. To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
  2. To lend aid; to help.
  3. To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.

Assist Quotations

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
Margaret Thatcher

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Jean Paul

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
Adam Schiff
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Assist Translations

assist in Afrikaans is help
assist in Dutch is helpen, assisteren, bijstaan
assist in Finnish is auttaa
assist in French is assister, assistez, aider, alimenter, assistent
assist in Italian is promuovere, aiutare
assist in Latin is ministro, proficio, adiuvo, succurro, adservio
assist in Norwegian is hjelpe
assist in Spanish is asistir, promover, ayudar

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