help

Meaning

Noun

1. Action given to provide assistance; aid.
2. Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
3. Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
4. A study aid.
5. One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
6. Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

Verb

1. To provide assistance to (someone or something).
2. To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
3. To contribute in some way to.
4. To provide assistance.
5. To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
6. To do something on the behalf of someone.

Intj

1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance
2. A way to signal uncontrollable laughter; implying the risk of dying of laughter and needing assistance.

Concepts

help

aid

assist

assistance

support

succor

relieve

succour

relief

assistant

rescue

avail

benefit

service

promote

favour

helper

abet

serve

helping

save

protect

hand

sustain

facilitate

lend a hand

help out

cooperate

favor

lift

accomodate

accommodate

advance

helpmate

protection

shelter

patronage

auxiliary

remedy

attend to

aide

further

guide

cooperation

salvation

maintain

patronize

back

boost

supporter

prop up

backing

befriend

kindness

help oneself

means

refuge

strengthen

be of service

give aid

defend

ministration

associate

give a hand

oblige

grace

take part in

reinforce

spare

looking after

take care of

provide

care

encourage

prop

share

be charitable to

be kind to

sponsor

comfort

facilitation

improve

prevent

subserve

correct

contribute

coadjutor

helpmeet

pluck

second

mutual aid

please

give

servant

bless

fins

wings

squeeze

render aid

oh no

equip

supply

barracking

cheering

reinforcement

rooting

worker

give relief to

friend in need

lifeboat

adviser

advisor

counsellor

counselor

add

augment

hide

look after

give support to

be concerned

give a helping hand

subsidize

restore

benevolence

give assistance to

keep up

ease

lighten

make things easier

foster

carry carefully

handle gently

sustentation

maintenance

standing for

distribute

participate

take part

back up

do a good turn

to patronize

uphold

convenience

conveniency

creature

luxury

simplify

logrolling

promotion

ministrations

sustenance

animate

feed

bring

guard

keep

preserve

obligation

endeavour

defence

lend one’s assistance

that which assists

aider

bestead

empower

furtherance

mate

employee

avoid

instrumentality

leg-up

accessorine

beneficence

help on

render help to

edify

side with

witness for

do instead of

admonish

exhort

instruct

rebuke

reprove

teach

warn

renew

gift

advantage

use

bow-detsera [h

bow-leg

forgive

give help

pay back

charity

influence

care for

collaborate

curare

be of assistance

give support

appease

calm

pacify

redeem

rescue from danger

safeguard

be of use

do good to

profit

give life

reanimate

revive

cry

helping one another

gee

collaboration

intervene

benefaction

usefulness

hope

helpfulness

cart

helping hand

succorer

succourer

hired man

handmaid

vehicle

benefact

bring through

carry through

do good

pull through

cross

arrest

avert

baffle

bar

bilk

block

block out

block up

blockade

check

cramp

debar

deflect

deter

embarrass

foil

forbid

forefend

forestall

forfend

frustrate

head off

hinder

impede

incapacitate

inhibit

obstruct

obviate

queer

restrain

scotch

shut

spoil

stop

stymie

stymy

thwart

trammel

administer

admit

adopt

assume

draw

drink

extract

grab

pick up

take

take up

withdraw

ameliorate

better

cure

enhance

enrich

polish

refine

reform

remediate

review

turn around

wait

wait on

waitress

cop

pinch

purloin

rob

rustle

steal

strip

thieve

pardon

pity

efforts

treatment

give relief

accustom

brief

conduct

direct

head

lead

marshal

mentor

refer

help to

neighborly help

neighbourly help

conducive to

lift up

espouse

pass

support foster

work

contribution

bus

class

fleet

group

party

time

vessel

steady

join

put together

set up

maid

Help

aid money

aidance

ancilla

bailout

leg up

financial aid

financial assistance

action

implement

instrument

tool

benefactor

yeoman

abetter

abetters

abettors

acolyte

adjunct

assistants

backer

backers

helpers

helpmates

supporters

pitch in

subjoin

toss in

go along to

mind

give somebody a hand

bolster up

brace up

reenforce

reinvigorate

tone up

underpin

of service

urge

equal

lean upon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɛlp/

Etymology

From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“help”).

Sentences

I can not help but feel that this topic is hopelessly outdated .

It didn't help that back then the empire was in the midst of a succession conflict .

He enlisted Adrastus' help in attacking Thebes .