Help synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
To give such assistance
(Sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
The process of directing the course of a spacecraft, missile, etc.
help (related)
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
do a service
To aid
Plural form of representative
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(Idiomatic) To provide support or the promise of support.
Cheer means to comfort, encourage or bring joy.
To be or to provide a benefit to.
do one's part
To aid
To make beneficial additions or changes:
Active help from a person, organization, et cetera.
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To grow better.
Also used with out: abet
To give support or assistance.
To bring or send help to
hired help
Employees
(Idiomatic) To help out; lend assistance; contribute; to do one's part.
To make better; improve
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serve (related)
To meet requirements or needs; satisfy:
To bolster is to uplift.
support (related)
To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.
The degree of immediacy of a source of information; degree of reliability:
assistant (related)
An assistant is defined as a person who helps someone.
stop (antonym)
Prone to halting or hesitation.
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oppose (antonym)
To oppose is to disapprove of or be against something.
To make or become better; improve:
To try to heal; apply medicine to
give a lift
To aid
give a leg up
(Slang) To steal or rob, especially by shoplifting or pickpocketing.
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The definition of attendant is a person who performs a service for another.
intercede for
To aid
come to the aid of
To aid
(intransitive) To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after. [from 15th c.]
(Colloquial) To wait for an event.
rival (antonym)
(Archaic) To try to equal or surpass; compete with
blockage (antonym)
Something that blocks, or obstructs; obstacle
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ownership (antonym)
A group that owns something:
To cause to move backward or in a reverse direction:
To cause to be interested or engaged:
take under one's wing
To aid
(Baseball) A relief pitcher.
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(Idiomatic) To help or assist, especially voluntarily.
do a favor
To aid
To encourage or tolerate by indicating approval:
To choose to take the same point of view as (someone).
treat (related)
To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. [from 18th c.]
A supporter or advocate. [Late 16th century.]
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give (or lend) a hand
(Idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to make ready.
To place or lean (something) against a support
(Idiomatic) To not be deceived by something that is false or misleading; to understand the hidden truth about someone or something.
give a hand
To aid
be of use
To aid
Endorse is defined as to give your approval to someone or something or to authorize the payment of a document by signing with one's signature.
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One who actively assists, defends, pleads, prosecutes, speaks, writes, or otherwise supports the cause of another. A lawyer. To speak, write, or otherwise support a cause by argument.
Patronize means to be a regular customer of a business.
To support by providing means of existence; bear the expenses of
To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing:
take in tow
To aid
To reconcile (differences)
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tend to
To serve at table
combat (antonym)
To act or work in order to eliminate, curtail, or stop:
relief (related)
Relief is the ease of pain, tension, strain or other discomfort.
heal (related)
To cure or get rid of (a disease)
revive (related)
To give new health, strength, or spirit to:
worsen (antonym)
To make or become worse
To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components
The definition of assistance is the act of helping or lending support.
be of some help
To aid
help along
To aid
To indicate formally one's approval or support of (a motion, nomination, etc.) as a necessary preliminary to discussion of or a vote on it
go to bat for
To aid
To aid
To make better; improve:
staff (related)
(Music) The horizontal lines on and between which notes are written or printed: the placement of a note on the staff indicates its pitch
nurse (related)
Nurse means to drink something slowly.
The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
To give moral or spiritual support or encouragement to
To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated.
To give support to; foster:
The definition of cooperate is to work together in a positive manner for a common purpose.
work for
To aid
Sustain is defined as to support something or to endure a trial or hardship.
The definition of maintenance is providing support or upkeep to something.
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
(Law) Involving the knowing assistance of a lawbreaker in the commission of a crime without actual participation in the crime.
adminicular
Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
Affording advantage; favorable or beneficial.
Presenting favorable circumstances or showing signs of a favorable outcome; propitious:
Receiving benefit
Giving aid, support, service, etc.; serving to supplement; auxiliary
Serving to cure or heal; curative
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
The definition of avail is to help or give an advantage.
One that supports, as a structural member of a building.
Serving to improve or advance; helpful:
Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient.
To repair is defined as to fix something.
Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned or managed by those who use its facilities or services:
Serving to corroborate
The definition of helpful is someone or something that is useful, that provides assistance or aid, or that is prone to providing aid.
Ready to do favors for others; accommodating.
At a convenient or advantageous time.
Boding well; favorable; auspicious
Support given to a person or cause
coadjuvancy
(Rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help
The work or position of a curate; curacy
An encouraging or being encouraged
(Psychol.) Increased ease of performance of any action, resulting from the lessening of nerve resistance by the continued successive application of the necessary stimulus
A course of action for enforcing a claim; the right of the holder of a note to demand full payment of that note if the terms are not fully honored; the right to be repaid from the borrower’s or cosigner’s personal assets in excess of the collateral.
Something that restores; esp., something that restores to consciousness, as smelling salts
The definition of a subsidy is money or grants given by the government to support a project, business or industry, or a grant of money or financial support offered to fund an artist, project or other endeavor.
Money granted, as by a government, in support of a study, institution, etc.; subsidy
adminicle
To aid
To lessen or reduce:
(Usually of a cause) to promote, advocate, or act as a champion for
To work together, esp. in some literary, artistic, or scientific undertaking
To pretend not to see or look (at something wrong or evil), thus giving tacit consent or cooperation; feign ignorance of another's wrongdoing
To help bring about a result; act as a factor:
To aid
To speed up or make easy the progress or action of; hasten; facilitate
To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants' views are heard.
To approve, advocate, or support:
The definition of participate is to take part in an activity.
To aid
Stead is defined as to be of service.
Subsidize is to pay part of the costs of producing or doing something.
To aid
obstruction (antonym)
Anything that obstructs; hindrance
check (antonym)
A check is defined as a mark put next to something written down to show it has been verified or completed.
management (antonym)
The person or persons who control or direct a business or other enterprise.
manager (antonym)
(Sports) One who is in charge of the training and performance of an athlete or team.
hurt (antonym)
To undermine, impede, or damage.
harm (antonym)
To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
counteract (antonym)
To act directly against; check, neutralize, or undo the effect of with opposing action
hinder (antonym)
To obstruct or delay the progress of:
injure (antonym)
To damage or impair.
The serving of food or the manner in which it is served:
help-to (related)
enable (related)
empower (related)
give support (related)
work together (related)
be able (related)
To aid
helps (related)
help-out (related)
counteraction (antonym)
An act of retaliation; a counterattack
injury (antonym)
A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss:
obstruct (antonym)
To be or get in the way of (a view or something to be seen).
aggravate (antonym)
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
decrease (antonym)
To make (a quantity) smaller.
help-oneself
Used other than as an idiom: see help.
block (antonym)
To stop or deflect a ball or puck by using one's body.
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
Find another word for help. In this page you can discover 182 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for help, like: succor, assist, guidance, aides, help, do a service, representatives, back up, cheer, benefit and do one's part.