help : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
  house servant; domestic.
  

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• noun a service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network
  helpdesk.
  

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• verb abstain from doing; always used with a negative
  help.
  
  • I can't help myself--I have to smoke
  • She could not help watching the sad spectacle

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• verb be of help, as in a particular situation of need
  
  • Can you help out tonight with the dinner guests?

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• noun physical assistance
  hand.
  
  • give me a hand with the chores

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• noun employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)
  

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• noun a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)
  

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• noun help hired to work in the kitchen
  

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• noun the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else
  

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Self`-help" noun

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1. The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.

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• to assist in advancing.

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• to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke.

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• to forward; to promote by aid.

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• to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.

  The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help him out. Swift.

• to lend aid; to bring a supply.

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• to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle.

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• to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup.

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• to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that trusts to you." Shak.

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• adverb in a helpless manner
  impotently; helplessly.
  
  • the crowd watched him helplessly

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