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helpingverbpresent participle of help to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an endoffered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, backstopping, propping (up), supporting advancing, easing, facilitating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, launchingchampioning, endorsing(also indorsing), patronizing, promoting, sponsoringattending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), succoringsustainingbolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing(also reenforcing)advising, counseling(or counselling), guiding, mentoring, nurturingbailing out, delivering, rescuing, savingemboldening, encouraging, hearteningbenefiting(also benefitting), favoring, obliging, profiting, serving bearing a hand, standing one in good stead hindering balking, barring, blocking, constraining, hampering, handicapping, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, obstructing, restraining, stranglingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, inconveniencing, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwartingdeserting, disappointing, failing, letting downdiscouraging, dishearteningrepressing, retarding, stifling, straitening, stuntingdamaging, harming, hurting, injuring to make more bearable or less severethe new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit allaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, mitigating, mollifying, palliating, relieving, soothing abating, lightening, moderating, softening, temperingcuring, healing, remedyingamending, correcting, emending, fixing, mending, rectifying, reforming, repairingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining aggravating, exacerbating harming, hurting, impairing, injuringheightening, intensifying, sharpening to keep from happening by taking action in advancethey couldn't help the way things turned out averting, forestalling, heading off, obviating, precluding, preventing, staving off anticipating, providingnegating, neutralizing, nullifyingsavingbaffling, balking, checkmating, deterring, foiling, frustrating, thwartingbarring, blocking, hampering, hindering, impeding, interfering (with), retarding, stallingdeflecting, fending (off), stopping, warding (off)avoiding, circumventing, dodging, ducking, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunningforbidding, inhibiting, prohibitingarresting, checking, halting, stoppingcompensating (for), counteracting, counterbalancing, making up (for), offsetting abetting, aiding, assistingeasing, facilitating, smoothing, uncloggingadvancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nurturing, promotingallowing, leaving, letting, permitting to provide with something useful or desirablebeing independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist advantaging, availing, benefiting(also benefitting), profiting, serving succeeding, working (for)aiding, assistingbettering, improvingcontenting, delighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, satisfyingblessing hindering, impedingdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuringafflicting, distressing, upsetting to make bettersome minor revisions would help this essay immensely ameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining, upgrading correcting, emending, rectifying, reforming, remediating, remedyingediting, fine-tuning, redrafting, refurbishing, rehabbing, rehabilitating, revamping, revising, reworkingbeefing (up), boosting, fortifying, intensifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningfining, honing, polishingretouching, touching up worsening damaging, endamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, spoiling, tarnishing, vitiatingblemishing, blighting, defacing, disfiguring, flawing, marringdiminishing, lessening, lowering, reducing in 1883 |