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verb
- 1. make it easier for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources: "they helped her with domestic chores" Similar Opposite
- 2. serve someone with (food or drink): "she helped herself to a cookie"
noun
- 1. the action of helping someone to do something; assistance: "I asked for help from my neighbors" Similar Opposite
exclamation
- 1. used as an appeal for urgent assistance: "Help! I'm drowning!"
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The meaning of HELP is to give assistance or support to (someone) : to provide (someone) with something that is useful or necessary in achieving an end. How to use help in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Help.
to make it possible or easier for someone to do something, by doing part of the work yourself or by providing advice, money, support, etc.: How can I help you? I wonder if you could help me - I'd like some information about flights to New Zealand. help with My dad said he would help with the costs of (= give part of the cost of) buying a house.
The verb help means to give aid or assistance to. You can help your friend organize a car wash at school by making posters and putting them up all over town. Help can also mean to serve food or drink––as in, " Help yourself!"
[intransitive, transitive] to improve a situation; to make it easier for something to happen. The support of our families has helped enormously. it helps (doing something) It helped being able to talk about it. it helps that… It certainly helped that her father is a duke!
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor. Synonyms: backing, support. a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency.
help implies furnishing anything that furthers one’s efforts or relieves one’s wants or necessities. aid and assist, somewhat more formal, imply esp. a furthering or seconding of another’s efforts. aid implies a more active helping; assist implies less need and less help.
to make something easier or better: [ + to do sth ] When you're nervous or frightened, it helps to breathe slowly and deeply. The signals help aircraft pilots to navigate safely. can't/couldn't help sth. B1. to be unable to stop yourself doing something or to stop something happening:
Definition of help noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. If you help someone, you make it easier for them to do something, for example by doing part of the work for them or by giving them advice or money. [...] 2. If you say that something helps, you mean that it makes something easier to do or get, or that it improves a situation to some extent. [...]
1. to assist or aid (someone to do something), esp by sharing the work, cost, or burden of something: he helped his friend to escape; she helped him climb out of the boat. 2. to alleviate the burden of (someone else) by giving assistance.
