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Meaning help meaning

What does help mean?
Definitions in simple English

help Verb

— If you help another person do something, you do things to make it easier for them to do the thing, or you do part of it for them. Will you please help me wash the dishes? — If you can't help doing something or can't help but do it, you cannot avoid it. You do it even without wanting or planning to. When I look at the class, I can not help feeling that something has gone wrong. They agreed that it was good, but I can't help wondering, "good for who?"

help Noun

— Help is the act of helping. Will you please give me some help? This is hard for just one person to do. — The help is people who work in a home cooking, cleaning, etc. The help arrives as 9 o' clock.

help

— verb give help or assistance; be of service Everyone helped out during the earthquake Can you help me carry this table? She never helps around the house — verb improve the condition of These pills will help the patient — noun (= aid, assist, assistance) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose he gave me an assist with the housework could not walk without assistance rescue party went to their aid offered his help in unloading — verb be of use This will help to prevent accidents — verb abstain from doing; always used with a negative I can't help myself--I have to smoke She could not help watching the sad spectacle — noun (= assistant) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose my invaluable assistant they hired additional help to finish the work — verb (= serve) help to some food; help with food or drink I served him three times, and after that he helped himself — noun (= avail) a means of serving of no avail there's no help for it — noun (= aid) a resource visual aids in teaching — verb improve; change for the better New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture — verb contribute to the furtherance of This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries — verb take or use She helped herself to some of the office supplies

Synonyms help synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as help?

help English » English

aid assist assistance support succor relieve succour relief assistant rescue avail service promote favour benefit serve helping helper abet save protect hand sustain facilitate lift lend a hand help out favor cooperate accomodate shelter remedy protection patronage helpmate auxiliary advance accommodate supporter strengthen salvation refuge prop up patronize ministration means maintain kindness help oneself guide

Help English » English

support succour succor relief patronage ministration leg up helping help bailout backing assistance assist ancilla aidance aid money aid

HELP English » English

hybrid electronic light packaging high-energy leadless package

Topics help topics

What do people use help to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Help
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Respond to someone in trouble

  • What words refer to the response of a person who sees someone in trouble?
    response help aid
Work and occupation Work Method Use

Useless
Person Life Birth

Help to give birth
Language and thought Want Request

Agree to do something
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Give permission
Language and thought Want

Offer
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Cooperate with
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Respond to trouble
Daily life

Manage a house
Work and occupation Work

Worker
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal
Physical actions Posture

Stand

Conjugation help conjugation

How do you conjugate help?

help · verb

Examples help examples

How do I use help in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must help her, and soon!
I expect your help.
I'm willing to help him.
I hope I can be of some help to you.
He screamed for help.
Ask your dad to help you.
Let me help you.
Now that you are here, you can help do the cleaning.
There is not much I can do to help, I am afraid.
We ought to help each other.
Let me help you with your work.
I owe my success to your help.
I am so busy that I can't help you.
Sometimes I can't help showing emotions.
There's quite a lot of things to do; do you want some help?
You can depend on his help.
You have only to give him a little help.
I don't need your help.
Without your help, we wouldn't be able to carry out our plan.
I am only too glad to help you with your work.
I count on your help.
Thanks to your help, I could succeed.
I feel indebted to you for your help during my illness.
If you're busy, I'll help you.

Movie subtitles

She's with Yoon to help him out.
Please help!
He jumped in the mouth of one to help his brother.
Can you help?
So, can you please help me?
I hope you'll help me with everything that's still to come.
Help me rebuild Japan. you're being just as bad as Clovis was!
Help us.
I want you to help me understand what made Western civilization dominate the world for the Iast 500 years.
We, we really appreciate your help, Nabulungi.
But Baba, we have to help and fight him!
This book can help us.
Oh, please help me Father! (Down, down thy soul is cast) Please let me wake up!
Not fight him, help him.
We want to help the Arabs, to protect their language and their religion. We wish to let them run their own country and help them gradually take in the values of modern Western civilization.
I'm sure he could use our help.
You can help me.
On behalf of France and science, I came to help the emir and his family.
I came to help the emir's family with French knowledge. May Allah protect them.
Go get help at the village. We'll give them a nice burial.
Need some help?
You'd promised to ask your friends to help me.
What are you doing to help them?
May God help you decide our fate.
Help me in the name of Allah. Sir.
I'm saying, and, uh, when he called me to ask for my help, I just couldn't refuse.
Maybe you could help me solve a little problem I have.
Yeah, I told you we were friends, and friends help each other out.
I know you'd help me out if I needed it. Oh, you bet, Frankie.
Can I help you?
Shall we go and help him?
Only trying to help, knobhead.
Just help yourself.
Two stay, two go and get help.
Go back to the shop where you bought it from, right, and ask someone there to help you, they'll help you.
If you can do something to help, then you do it.
Chris, help me.
I'm going to help you stop him as part of your pack.

News and current affairs

PARIS - As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.
All too often, the fight is about turf, rather than about the most effective way to speed help to the poor.
The bureaucracies must be bypassed to get help to where it is needed: in the soil tilled by the world's poorest farm families.
We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.
The benefits of some donor help can be remarkable.
Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.
But IMF accounting inhibits the use of these funds to help stabilize an economy through counter-cyclical fiscal spending.
And those who, like the psychopathic Alex, need the most help are probably those who would want it least.
Although the job of maintaining Ukraine's democracy is primarily one for Ukrainians, the EU can help if it takes practical steps to reassure Ukrainians that they won't be cut off from the rest of Europe.
But, even as Europe's leaders promised that help was on the way, they doubled down on the belief that non-crisis countries must cut spending.
The resulting austerity will hinder Europe's growth, and thus that of its most distressed economies: after all, nothing would help Greece more than robust growth in its trading partners.
In addition, it would help if the US could take a strong lead by ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
One cannot help but wonder how thoughtlessly Europe's politicians have started down this slippery slope.
Progress in these areas would help governments to channel their spending more effectively toward those who would benefit the most.
Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless.
With donor help, they can.
These countries have appealed to the World Bank for financing, and the Bank made a valiant effort in 2008 to help through its new Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFCRP).
The 2008 planting seasons came and went with much too little additional help for impoverished small farmers.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
I have no doubt that those involved were seeking a way forward that would allow for a full investigation and help overcome the political divisiveness currently undermining the Human Rights Council within the UN system.
So we shouldn't be too quick to dismiss the suggestion that science might help - in the first instance, by helping us design more effective institutions, more inspiring moral education, or more persuasive ethical arguments.
It would also help to amplify within China the universal and humanistic values for which Liu has spent so much of his life fighting.
The International Civil Aviation Authority has announced that it will convene a group of experts to help it provide guidance for the industry to decide what level of ash in the atmosphere makes it unsafe to fly.

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