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overassist

overassist verb: to assist to an excessive degree.

Verb

overassist (third-person singular simple present overassists, present participle overassisting, simple past and past participle overassisted)

  1. To assist to an excessive degree.
    • One of the drawbacks of this mode is that if high values are introduced and high percentage of assistance is used, the ventilator can overassist the patient and fail to recognize the end of patient breath.2015, Yatin Mehta, Textbook of Critical Care, page 185

Forms of overassist

third-person singular presentoverassists
present participleoverassisting
past participleoverassisted
pastoverassisted

Origin of overassist

From over- + assist.

Questions about overassist

What does overassist mean?
Overassist means to assist to an excessive degree.
What part of speech is overassist?
Overassist is a verb.
What is the past tense of overassist?
The past tense of overassist is overassisted.

Words near overassist in the dictionary

  1. overassessed
  2. overassesses
  3. overassessing
  4. overassessment
  5. overassessments
  6. overassist
  7. overassisted
  8. overassisting
  9. overassists
  10. overassumption
  11. overassumptions

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