unaided

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un·aid·ed

(ŭn-ā′dĭd)

adj.

Carried out or functioning without aid or assistance: made an unaided attempt to climb the sheer cliff.

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unaided

(ʌnˈeɪdɪd)

adj

without having received any help

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Adj.

unaided - carried out without aid or assistance; "his first unaided walk through the park"

unassisted - lacking help

unaided

adjective alone, solo, single-handed, unaccompanied, without help previous attempts to reach the North Pole unaided

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Translations

αβοήθητος

senza aiuto

unaided

[ˈʌnˈeɪdɪd]

A. ADV → sin ayuda, por sí solo

B. ADJ by his own unaided efforts → sin ayuda de nadie, por sí solo

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unaided

[ʌnˈeɪdɪd] adj → sans assistance

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unaided

adv → ohne fremde Hilfe; to do something unaided → etw allein or ohne fremde Hilfe tun

adj his own unaided work → seine eigene Arbeit; by my own unaided efforts → ganz ohne fremde Hilfe; unaided by somebody → ohne jds Hilfe; unaided by something → ohne Zuhilfenahme von etw; with the unaided eye → mit dem bloßen Auge; to be invisible to the unaided eye → mit dem bloßen Auge nicht sichtbar sein

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unaided

[ʌnˈeɪdɪd]

1. adv → senza aiuto

2. adj by his own unaided efforts → con le sue sole forze, senza l'aiuto di nessuno

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And going to a bigger pine, he rose by his own unaided exertions to the top branch, where he sat, all bedaubed with the pitch which that vegetable exudes.

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The novelty of an evening's entertainment, conducted from beginning to end by the unaided exertions of a young lady

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Nature must accomplish the rest unaided or Korak must die.

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de Richelieu, of whom we were speaking just now, was very much to blame in the fixed idea he had of governing France alone, unaided. He allowed two kings, King Louis XIII.

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Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

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'Plainly, madam, you come to me as an enigma, and you leave me to make the right guess by the unaided efforts of my art.

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Two men, her husband and her lover, were the two centers of her existence, and unaided by her external senses she was aware of their nearness.

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My own unaided ingenuity, consulted next, proved quite unequal to grapple with the difficulty.

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In my doubt and perplexity, in my vague suspicion of something hidden which I was left to find by my own unaided efforts, I examined Miss Halcombe's looks and manner for enlightenment.

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But to her unaccustomed vision the stretch of water behind her assumed the aspect of a barrier which her unaided strength would never be able to overcome.

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Then had followed the news that the producer of this awful event was a stranger, a mighty magician at Arthur's court; that he could have blown out the sun like a candle, and was just going to do it when his mercy was purchased, and he then dissolved his enchantments, and was now recognized and honored as the man who had by his unaided might saved the globe from destruction and its peoples from extinction.

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`I tried to call to them, but the language they had was apparently different from that of the Over-world people; so that I was needs left to my own unaided efforts, and the thought of flight before exploration was even then in my mind.