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Definitions for Helping

[1] the act of a person or thing that helps.
[2] a portion of food served to a person at one time: That's his third helping of ice cream.
[3] giving aid, assistance, support, or the like.
[4] 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.
[5] to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling!
[6] to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate: The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace.
[7] to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career.
[8] to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot ): He can't help doing it.
[9] to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior.
[10] to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress.
[11] to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache.
[12] to serve food to at table (usually followed by to ): Help her to salad.
[13] to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store.
[14] to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps.
[15] the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
[16] a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency.
[17] a hired helper; employee.
[18] a body of such helpers.
[19] a domestic servant or a farm laborer.
[20] means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now.
[21] Older Use . helping(def 2) .
[22] (used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention.)
[23] help out , to assist in an effort; be of aid to: Her relatives helped out when she became ill.
[24] a single portion of food taken at a meal
[25] 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
[26] to alleviate the burden of (someone else) by giving assistance
[27] (tr) to assist (a person) to go in a specified direction help the old lady up from the chair
[28] to promote or contribute to to help the relief operations
[29] to cause improvement in (a situation, person, etc) crying won't help
[30] (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
[31] to alleviate (an illness, etc)
[32] (tr) to serve (a customer) can I help you, madam?
[33] (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
[34] cannot help but to be unable to do anything else except I cannot help but laugh
[35] help a person off with to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
[36] help a person on with to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
[37] so help me on my honour no matter what so help me, I'll get revenge
[38] the act of helping, or being helped, or a person or thing that helps she's a great help
[39] a helping
[40] a person hired for a job; employee, esp a farm worker or domestic servant (functioning as singular) several employees collectively
[41] a means of remedy there's no help for it
[42] used to ask for assistance

Words related to Helping

serving, dollop, ration, share, order, course, piece, meal, allowance, plateful

Words nearby Helping

helper cell, helper t cell, helper t-cell, helper virus, helpful, helping, helping hand, helping verb, helpless, helpline, helpmann

Origin of Helping

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

Other words from Helping

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

Word origin for Helping

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

Synonyms for Helping

allowance, course, dollop, meal, order, piece, plateful, ration, serving, share