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help
[help]
verb (used with object)
to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist.
He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,to save; rescue; succor.
Help me, I'm falling!
to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate.
The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:to be useful or profitable to.
Her quick mind helped her career.
to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can orcannot ).
He can't help doing it.
to relieve or break the uniformity of.
Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior.
Synonyms:to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:to remedy, stop, or prevent.
Nothing will help my headache.
to serve food to at table (usually followed byto ).
Help her to salad.
to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store.
verb (used without object)
to give aid; be of service or advantage.
Every little bit helps.
Antonyms:
noun
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
Synonyms: ,a person or thing that helps.
She certainly is a help in an emergency.
Antonyms:a body of such helpers.
a domestic servant or a farm laborer.
means of remedying, stopping, or preventing.
The thing is done, and there is no help for it now.
Older Use.helping.
interjection
(used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention.)
verb phrase
to assist in an effort; be of aid to.
Her relatives helped out when she became ill.
help
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verb
to assist or aid (someone to do something), esp by sharing the work, cost, or burden of something
he helped his friend to escape
she helped him climb out of the boat
to alleviate the burden of (someone else) by giving assistance
(tr) to assist (a person) to go in a specified direction
help the old lady up from the chair
to promote or contribute to
to help the relief operations
to cause improvement in (a situation, person, etc)
crying won't help
(tr; preceded by can, could, etc; usually used with a negative)
to avoid or refrain from
we can't help wondering who he is
(usually foll by it) to prevent or be responsible for
I can't help it if it rains
to alleviate (an illness, etc)
(tr) to serve (a customer)
can I help you, madam?
to serve (someone with food, etc) (usually in the phrase help oneself )
may I help you to some more vegetables?
help yourself to peas
to provide (oneself with) without permission
he's been helping himself to money out of the petty cash
to be unable to do anything else except
I cannot help but laugh
to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
on my honour
no matter what
so help me, I'll get revenge
noun
the act of helping, or being helped, or a person or thing that helps
she's a great help
a helping
a person hired for a job; employee, esp a farm worker or domestic servant
(functioning as singular) several employees collectively
a means of remedy
there's no help for it
interjection
used to ask for assistance
Usage
Other 51Թ Forms
- helpable adjective
- underhelp noun
- unhelpable adjective
- unhelped adjective
- well-helped adjective
- ˈ貹 adjective
- ˈ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of help1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of help1
Idioms and Phrases
help oneself to,
to serve oneself; take a portion of.
Help yourself to the cake.
to take or use without asking permission; appropriate.
They helped themselves to the farmer's apples. Help yourself to any of the books we're giving away.
so help me, (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor.
That's exactly what happened, so help me.
cannot / can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to.
Still, you can't help but admire her.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
She said: "I'm just taking it a month at a time, but there is going to come a point where we're going to have to ask for extra help in that respect."
“As consumers look to recognize the father figures in their lives, retailers are prepared with gift ideas, special deals and convenient shopping options to help customers find the right gifts.”
Iran has threatened to target UK, French and US military bases in the region if they offer Israel help to stop Tehran's strikes.
Even the sleeping tablets he took could not help him switch off.
Mr Chester's family said he was "the most amazing man we will ever know", who said he "died the way he lived – helping others and putting them ahead of himself".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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