assist
verb (used with object)
to give support or aid to; help.
unassisting
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a word derived from
assist.
Example Sentences
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A belated coquetry—Pancha climbing up had wasted no time on such unassisting arts—stirred in her.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner
While Greece unconquer'd kept alive the war, Secure of death, confiding in despair; And all her guardian gods, in deep dismay, With unassisting arms deplored the day.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
For it was there, in the midst of those unassisting and enervating surroundings, he dimly felt, that he himself was to choose one of two strangely divergent paths.
From Phantom Wires A Novel by Arthur William Brown
Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
