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assisting

/əˈsɪstɪŋ/

assisting is the present participle and gerund of assist.

Meaning of assist

Verb

assist (third-person singular simple present assists, present participle assisting, simple past and past participle assisted)

  1. To help.
    • This book will assist you in getting your life in order.
  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. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
    • A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
  5. (archaic) To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
    • I assisted with pleasure at the representation of several tragedies and comedies.1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin, published 1990, page 138

See all 8 meanings of assist

Noun

assisting (plural assistings)

  1. assistance; help given
    • […] through atonement for sin by the death of Christ the world has been blessed with a dispensation of helping influences — the gracious and altogether sufficient assistings of the Holy Ghost.1871, The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

Adjective

assisting (comparative more assisting, superlative most assisting)

  1. (archaic) Helpful; auxiliary (to).
    • In the meantime, he plainly perceived that she would not stoop to be directly assisting to his views on Laura.1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 105

Forms of assisting

Noun
pluralassistings
Adjective
comparativemore assisting
superlativemost assisting

Words formed from assisting

Questions about assisting

What does assisting mean?
Assisting means assistance; help given.
What is assisting the present participle and gerund of?
Assisting is the present participle and gerund of assist.
What part of speech is assisting?
Assisting can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce assisting?
Assisting is pronounced /əˈsɪstɪŋ/.
What is the plural of assisting?
The plural of assisting is assistings.

Words near assisting in the dictionary

  1. assister
  2. assisters
  3. assistest
  4. assisteth
  5. assistful
  6. assisting
  7. assistingly
  8. assistings
  9. assistive
  10. assistive technologies
  11. assistive technology

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