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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unaided
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
eye
▪ The symptoms are usually quite acute and can be seen with the unaided eye.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jerry cannot stand up unaided.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another wall of the same crystal - unbreakable by any unaided human body - stretched across the chamber close by.
▪ He had to reach safety in the next few seconds, by his own unaided efforts.
▪ However, the more subtle the judgement, the greater the dangers inherent in reliance on unaided intuition.
▪ No man unaided could kill Medusa.
▪ There are plenty of things which exist and are indisputably real, despite not being perceptible to your unaided senses.
▪ They checked whether the person could take even a breath or two unaided and determined what muscles the patient used for breathing.
▪ Upon successful completion, the salesperson is then entrusted to sell the washing machines and dryers unaided.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unaided

1660s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of aid (v.).

Wiktionary
unaided

a. without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something

WordNet
unaided
  1. adj. being without physical aid; "he could not rise unaided from a sitting position"

  2. (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument; "visible to the naked eye"; "clearly audible to the unaided ear" [syn: naked]

Usage examples of "unaided".

It is dangerous to play at majesty, unaided by ten thousand armed assertors of our right.

Unaided, he might not be able to hypnotize the murderer against his will, but with the proper apparatus, there were distinct possibilities of success.

She saw now why he and Periwinkle had left her and Robin to escape from the castle unaided.

If, then, habit can do this - and it is no small thing to develop a wonderfully perfect prehensile organ which can serve as a fifth hand - how much more may not habit do, even though unaided, as Mr.

But when Anna desired her to explore unaided the old and new streets of the Quartier Latin, she avowed that she was afraid of the undertaking.

I climbed unaided, just relishing the true solid feel of the rock, the absence of any barrier between me and anything, the taste and the smell of this planet, the loss of verglas, the true sense of being here.

She lay, amoeboid, sprawled on an ancient couch from which she obviously could not rise unaided, and except for the small, hidden motion of her jaw when she spoke and the constant darting of her eyes back and forth, back and forth, she was utterly motionless.

But, judging by the insane flaccid-ity, the pottering idleness with which, in the winter of 1923-4, the Filipinized Agricultural Department and the entirely preoccupied Legislature confronted a deadly hemp pest, the life of the Philippine hemp industry depends on its unaided star--and may at any moment flicker out for all time.

It is said that some few of them sailed or were rowed into Gijon unaided, but many had to be towed.

Isis, and, generally speaking, all the feudal goddesses, were the chiefs of their local Enneads, is proved by the epithets applied to them, which represent them as having independent creative power by virtue of their own unaided force and energy, like the god at the head of the Heliopolitan Ennead.

The fact that Nit, Isis, and, generally speaking, all the feudal goddesses, were the chiefs of their local Enneads, is proved by the epithets applied to them, which represent them as having independent creative power by virtue of their own unaided force and energy, like the god at the head of the Heliopolitan Ennead.

I have distinguished two sorts of gods whom man discovers or creates for himself by the exercise of his unaided faculties, to wit natural gods, whom he infers from his observation of external nature, and human gods or inspired men, whom he recognises by virtue of certain extraordinary mental manifestations in himself or in others.

Caryll, unaided now, completed the resumption of his garments, Leduc, silent and expressionless, submitted to being searched.

Sophotech, Silent Ones, Scaramouche, or however you are called, you may exceed me greatly in power and force of intellect, and may have weapons and forces at your command beyond anything my unaided thought can understand.

He had heard of loud sounds shattering rock and unleashing snowslides, unaided by any magic.