help
1. [ verb ] give help or assistance; be of service;
Synonyms: aid assist
Examples:

"Everyone helped out during the earthquake" "Can you help me carry this table?" "She never helps around the house"

Related terms: support care facilitate serve expedite avail help_out bootstrap benefact succor subserve aid aid assistant benefactor
2. [ verb ] be of use
Synonyms: facilitate
Examples:

"This will help to prevent accidents"

Related terms: serve facilitation
3. [ verb ] improve the condition of
Synonyms: aid
Examples:

"These pills will help the patient"

Related terms: better cure benefit care
4. [ verb ] abstain from doing; always used with a negative
Synonyms: help_oneself
Examples:

"I can't help myself--I have to smoke" "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"

Related terms: refrain
5. [ noun ] the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
Synonyms: assistance aid assist helping
Examples:

: "he gave me an assist with the housework" "could not walk without assistance" "rescue party went to their aid" "offered his help in unloading"

Related terms: activity service support relief boost recourse thanks lift hand self-help financial_aid accommodation facilitation serve
6. [ verb ] contribute to the furtherance of
Examples:

"This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

Related terms: promote aid assistant
7. [ verb ] improve; change for the better
Examples:

"New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"

Related terms: better aid
8. [ verb ] (food) help to some food; help with food or drink
Synonyms: serve
Examples:

"I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

Related terms: provide serve helping server
9. [ noun ] (work) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
Synonyms: assistant helper supporter
Examples:

"my invaluable assistant" "they hired additional help to finish the work"

Related terms: worker secretary model subordinate attendant aide acolyte accomplice deputy instrument powder_monkey right-hand_man facilitator sidesman hatchet_man prompter girl_Friday event_planner coadjutor labor_coach water_boy whipper-in manikin dresser dental_assistant underboss paraprofessional support assist
10. [ verb ] take or use
Synonyms: avail
Examples:

"She helped herself to some of the office supplies"

Related terms: exploit
11. [ noun ] a resource
Synonyms: aid assistance
Examples:

: "visual aids in teaching" "economic assistance to depressed areas"

Related terms: resource
12. [ noun ] a means of serving
Synonyms: avail service
Examples:

"of no avail" "there's no help for it"

Related terms: helpfulness avail
Similar spelling:   Helf