helping Definition

help
verb helped, helping

1. To contribute towards the success of something; to assist or aid.

Thesaurus: aid, assist, cooperate, accommodate, support, stand by, back up, succour, sustain, nourish, promote, lend a hand, second, take under one's wing, go to bat for (US slang); Antonym: hinder, oppose, rival.
2. To give the means to do something.
3. To relieve a difficult situation or burden; to improve or lighten (a predicament).
4. To provide or supply with a portion; to deal out.
5. To remedy; to mitigate or alleviate.

Thesaurus: ease, ameliorate, allay, alleviate, mitigate; improve, better, correct.
6. To refrain from something.

Example: I couldn't help laughing
7. To prevent or control.

Example: I can't help the bad weather
intr
8. To give assistance.
intr
9. To contribute.

noun

1. An act of helping.

Thesaurus: assistance, support, aid, advice, cooperation, guidance, backing, maintenance, nourishment, relief; Antonym: hindrance.
2. Means or strength given to another for a particular purpose.
3. Someone who is employed to help, especially a domestic help.

Thesaurus: assistant, employee, aide, hand, helper, hired help.
4. A remedy or relief.

adj

1. Giving help, aid or support.

Derivative: helpable
adj

Derivative: helper
noun

Someone who helps; an assistant.
Thesaurus: adjutant, aide, assistant, apprentice, factotum, attendant, auxiliary, right-hand man; collaborator, ally, colleague, partner, mainstay, second, supporter.

Idiom: cannot help oneself

Is not able to refrain from or resist doing something.

Idiom: more than one can help

More than is necessary.

Idiom: so help me (so help me God)

A form of solemn oath; on my word.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon helpan.

Phrasal Verb: help someone off with something

To assist them in taking it off or disposing of it.

Phrasal Verb: help someone on with something

To help them to put it on.

Phrasal Verb: help out or help someone out

To offer help, usually for a short time, and especially by sharing a burden or the cost of something.

Phrasal Verb: help oneself to something

To take (food, etc) for oneself without being served.To take it without authority or permission.

Phrasal Verb: help someone to something

To serve them with it
Example: help him to potatoes.

Info:

When help is followed by another verb, the ‘to' is often omitted, because ‘help' is a semi-modal verb like ‘may' and ‘dare' &wbox; &wbox; .

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helping
noun

1. A single portion of food served at a meal.

Thesaurus: serving, share, allowance, plateful, portion, amount, dollop, piece, ration.