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Definitions for Helped

[1] to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
[2] to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling!
[3] to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate: The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace.
[4] to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career.
[5] to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot ): He can't help doing it.
[6] to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior.
[7] to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress.
[8] to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache.
[9] to serve food to at table (usually followed by to ): Help her to salad.
[10] to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store.
[11] to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps.
[12] the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
[13] a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency.
[14] a hired helper; employee.
[15] a body of such helpers.
[16] a domestic servant or a farm laborer.
[17] means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now.
[18] Older Use . helping(def 2) .
[19] (used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention.)
[20] help out , to assist in an effort; be of aid to: Her relatives helped out when she became ill.
[21] cannot /can't help but , to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to: Still, you can't help but admire her.
[22] help oneself to , to serve oneself; take a portion of: Help yourself to the cake. to take or use without asking permission; appropriate: They helped themselves to the farmer's apples. Help yourself to any of the books we're giving away.
[23] so help me , (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor: That's exactly what happened, so help me.
[24] 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
[25] to alleviate the burden of (someone else) by giving assistance
[26] (tr) to assist (a person) to go in a specified direction help the old lady up from the chair
[27] to promote or contribute to to help the relief operations
[28] to cause improvement in (a situation, person, etc) crying won't help
[29] (tr; preceded by can, could, etc; usually used with a negative) to avoid or refrain from we can't help wondering who he is (usually foll by it) to prevent or be responsible for I can't help it if it rains
[30] to alleviate (an illness, etc)
[31] (tr) to serve (a customer) can I help you, madam?
[32] (tr foll by to ) to serve (someone with food, etc) (usually in the phrase help oneself ) may I help you to some more vegetables? ; help yourself to peas to provide (oneself with) without permission he's been helping himself to money out of the petty cash
[33] cannot help but to be unable to do anything else except I cannot help but laugh
[34] help a person off with to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
[35] help a person on with to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
[36] so help me on my honour no matter what so help me, I'll get revenge
[37] the act of helping, or being helped, or a person or thing that helps she's a great help
[38] a helping
[39] a person hired for a job; employee, esp a farm worker or domestic servant (functioning as singular) several employees collectively
[40] a means of remedy there's no help for it
[41] used to ask for assistance

Words related to Helped

helprelieved, backed, sustained, advised, encouraged, befriended, abetted, assisted, maintained, accompanied, bolstered

Words nearby Helped

helphelophyte, helot, helotism, helotomy, helotry, help, help oneself, help out, help screens, helper, helper cell

Origin of Helped

before 900; Middle English helpen, Old English helpan; cognate with German helfen

Other words from Helped

help·a·ble , adjective
un·der·help , noun
un·help·a·ble , adjective
un·helped , adjective
well-helped , adjective

Word origin for Helped

Old English helpan; related to Old Norse hjalpa, Gothic hilpan, Old High German helfan

Synonyms for Helped

abetted, accompanied, advised, assisted, backed, befriended, bolstered, encouraged, maintained, nursed, relieved, subsidized, supported, sustained, taken care of