Aid and Besetting

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Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Besetting is an antonym for aid.

Nearby Words: aids, aided, aide, aiding, aider

Besetting adjective - Caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urge.

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Aid is an antonym for besetting in plague topic.

In John Milton's Comus, the Spirit urges that Sabrina will be glad to add the Lady — she will be "swift to aid a virgin, such as was herself, in hard-besetting need."

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