Another word for help
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Verb
To give support or assistance.
- Assistance in time of distress; relief.
- One that affords assistance or relief:
- To give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress:
- To cause a lessening or alleviation of:
- To make less tedious, monotonous, or unpleasant:
- To free from pain, anxiety, or distress:
- To raise or lift by pushing up from below.
- To increase; raise:
- To assist in further development or progress:
- to give help to; aid
- to work with as a helper or assistant
- to give help; aid
- To provide assistance, support, or relief to:
- To provide assistance, support, or relief:
- The act or result of helping; assistance:
Idioms:See also:To advance to a more desirable state
- To raise to a higher grade or standard:
- To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version.
- To replace (a hardware device) with one that provides better performance.
- To make better; improve.
- To grow better.
- To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better:
- To increase the productivity or value of (land or property):
- To become better:
- Greater in excellence or higher in quality.
- More useful, suitable, or desirable:
- More highly skilled or adept:
- To change for the better; improve:
- To alter the wording of (a legal document, for example) so as to make more suitable or acceptable.
- To enrich (soil), especially by mixing in organic matter or sand.
- To make or become better; improve:
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Noun
The act or an instance of helping
- To bear the weight of, especially from below; keep from falling, sinking, or slipping:
- To bear or hold up (an amount of weight):
- To keep from weakening or failing; give confidence or comfort to:
- Assistance in time of distress; relief.
- One that affords assistance or relief:
- To give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress:
- The easing of a pain, distress, or anxiety:
- Something that alleviates pain, distress, or anxiety:
- Aid in time of danger:
- The terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm, used for grasping and holding and consisting of the wrist, palm, four fingers, and an opposable thumb.
- A homologous or similar part in other animals, as the terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates.
- A unit of length equal to 4 inches (10.2 centimeters), used especially to specify the height of a horse.
- The act of assisting.
- Aid; help:
- to give help to; aid
- to work with as a helper or assistant
- to give help; aid
- To provide assistance, support, or relief to:
- To provide assistance, support, or relief:
- The act or result of helping; assistance:
- The act of abetting; instigating; inciting; encouraging. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
See also:A person who helps
- someone who succors
- One that provides relief.
- A relief pitcher.
- a person or thing that helps; esp., an assisting worker who is more or less unskilled
- One who attends or waits on another.
- One who is present.
- An accompanying thing or circumstance; a concomitant.
- To provide assistance, support, or relief to:
- To provide assistance, support, or relief:
- The act or result of helping; assistance:
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Another word for help
Noun
Assistance
- The act or process of guiding.
- Counseling, such as that provided for students seeking advice about vocational and educational matters.
- Any of various processes for guiding the path of a vehicle or missile, by means of built-in equipment.
- The act or practice of cooperating.
- The association of persons or businesses for common, usually economic, benefit.
- Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem; counsel.
- Information communicated; news:
See also:Employees
- plural form of representative
- plural form of aide
Physical relief
- The act of nourishing.
- The state of being nourished.
- Something that nourishes; food.
- The supporting of life or health; maintenance or means of livelihood:
- Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
- Something that sustains something else; essential support:
- The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained:
- The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep:
- Provision of support or livelihood:
Verb
To aid
To assist in recovery
- A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine, chiropractic, optometry, podiatry, dentistry, or veterinary medicine.
- A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
- A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
- To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.
- To foster the development of; promote:
- To keep alive; maintain:
- To be present at:
- To go regularly to:
- To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result:
To serve at table
- To have enough space for:
- To provide lodging for:
- To take into consideration or make adjustments for; allow for:
- (colloquial) To wait for an event.
- To wait for a person to do something.
- To serve someone.
See also:To improve
- The condition of being comfortable or relieved.
- Freedom from pain, worry, or agitation:
- Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; naturalness.
- To make or put right:
- To remove the errors or mistakes from:
- To indicate or mark the errors in:
- Greater in excellence or higher in quality.
- More useful, suitable, or desirable:
- More highly skilled or adept:
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Idioms:
cannot help but
cannot help oneself
so-help-me-god
Synonym Study
- Succor suggests timely help to one in distress to succor a besieged city
- Aid and assist are somewhat more formal and weaker, assist esp. implying a subordinate role in the helper and less need for help she assisted him in his experiments
- Help is the simplest and strongest of these words meaning to supply another with whatever is necessary to accomplish his or her ends or relieve his or her wants
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