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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 or cannot ):
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 by to ):
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 ( def 2 ).
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
/ 丑蓻濒辫 /
verb
- to assist or aid (someone to do something), esp by sharing the work, cost, or burden of something
she helped him climb out of the boat
he helped his friend to escape
- 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?
- trfoll byto
- to serve (someone with food, etc) (usually in the phrase help oneself )
help yourself to peas
may I help you to some more vegetables?
- to provide (oneself with) without permission
he's been helping himself to money out of the petty cash
- cannot help butto be unable to do anything else except
I cannot help but laugh
- help a person off withto assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
- help a person on withto assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
- so help me
- 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 Note
Derived Forms
- 藞丑别濒辫补产濒别, adjective
- 藞丑别濒辫别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 丑别濒辫顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 耻苍顎僤别谤路丑别濒辫顎 noun
- un路丑别濒辫顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 耻苍路丑别濒辫别诲顎 adjective
- 飞别濒濒顎-丑别濒辫别诲顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of help1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of help1
Idioms and Phrases
- cannot / can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to:
Still, you can't help but admire her.
- 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 鈥渟o help me God鈥) I am speaking the truth; on my honor:
That's exactly what happened, so help me.
More idioms and phrases containing help
- can't help but
- every little bit helps
- not if one can help it
- so help me
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Its founder, Sam Flounders, said her team of 40 volunteers help about 1,000 people a month.
Mr Mosquera, a Colombian national, sat in the dock and listened to proceedings with the help of an interpreter.
Along the way, Julian must confront an opposing force: Alejandro鈥檚 astute sister, Sofia, a compelling character that Boneta says his own sister helped him create.
Their athleticism, talent and ability to perform well in pressure situations have helped the Braves win close game after close game.
And she would have a personal assistant to help her get her through her 鈥渃risis.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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