help
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
help/help/
▶verb
- 1 make it easier for (someone) to do something.
■ improve (a situation or problem); be of benefit to.
■ support (someone) to allow them to move in a specified direction: I helped her up.
- 2 (help someone to) serve someone with (food or drink).
■ (help oneself) take something without permission.
- 3 (can/could not help) cannot or could not avoid.
■ (can/could not help oneself) cannot or could not stop oneself from acting in a certain way.
- 1 action or support that helps someone or something.
■ a source of such support.
- 2 [as modifier] Computing giving assistance to a user in the form of displayed instructions: a help menu.
- 3 a domestic servant or employee.
– phrases
so help me (God) used to emphasize that one means what one is saying.
there is no help for it there is no way of avoiding or remedying a situation.
so help me (God) used to emphasize that one means what one is saying.
there is no help for it there is no way of avoiding or remedying a situation.
– derivatives
helper noun.
helper noun.
– origin OE helpan (v.), help (n.), of Gmc origin.
'help' also found in these Oxford entries:
activated sludge
- adaptogen
- adjuvant
- affiliation order
- aid
- aide-memoire
- assist
- assistance
- auxiliary
- auxotroph
- avail
- backscratching
- beguile
- beltman
- benefactor
- black tracker
- boost
- booster
- charity
- chivalry
- chrestomathy
- concept
- conduce
- contribute
- cooperate
- counsel
- cry
- daily
- detoxify
- domestic
- doula
- encourage
- enlist
- episematic
- errand
- firelighter
- first aid
- forward
- freegan
- Freemason
- further
- ground cover
- hand
- hang
- hard-luck story
- Hellerwork
- helpful
- helpless
- helpline
