Definition of auxiliary

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Auxiliary (sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish..

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Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest..
Auxiliar :: Auxiliar (n.) An auxiliary.
Preventer :: Preventer (n.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
Would :: Would (v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will..
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be bound in duty or by moral obligation..
Adminicle :: Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only..
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Owned; possessed..
Subsidized :: Subsidiary (n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish..
Ancillary :: Ancillary (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force..
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..
Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..
Assistant :: Assistant (a.) Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Supplyment :: Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done..
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