Definition of help

"help" in the noun sense

1. aid, assist, assistance, help

the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

"he gave me an assist with the housework"

"could not walk without assistance"

"rescue party went to their aid"

"offered his help in unloading"

2. assistant, helper, help, supporter

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

"my invaluable assistant"

"they hired additional help to finish the work"

3. aid, assistance, help

a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do

"visual aids in teaching"

"his job was to give technical assistance over the phone"

4. avail, help, service

a means of serving

"of no avail"

"there's no help for it"

"help" in the verb sense

1. help, assist, aid

give help or assistance be of service

"Everyone helped out during the earthquake"

"Can you help me carry this table?"

"She never helps around the house"

2. help, aid

improve the condition of

"These pills will help the patient"

3. help, facilitate

be of use

"This will help to prevent accidents"

4. help oneself, help

abstain from doing always used with a negative

"I can't help myself

5. serve, help

help to some food help with food or drink

"I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

6. help

contribute to the furtherance of

"This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

7. avail, help

take or use

"She helped herself to some of the office supplies"

8. help

improve change for the better

"New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"

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Quotations for help

Help from above. [ Motto ]

Good right needs good help. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Lame hares are ill to help. [ Proverb ]

One brother may help another. [ Proverb ]

My help cometh from the Lord. [ Motto ]

God help the fool, quoth Pedley. [ Proverb ]

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. [ William Shakespeare ]

Help hands, For I have no lands. [ Proverb ]

Help the lame dog over the stile. [ Proverb ]

Even the just man has need of help. [ Italian Proverb ]

A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]

God help the rich, the poor can beg. [ Proverb ]

God helps those who help themselves. [ Algernon Sidney ]

Help thyself and God will help thee. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Help us to turn disaster to account. [ Robert Browning ]

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after. [ Shakespeare ]

Fortune, my friend, I've often thought
Is weak, if Art assist her not:
So equally all Arts are vain,
If Fortune help them not again. [ Sheridan ]

Fortitude is a great help in distress. [ Plautus ]

God's help is better than early rising. [ Proverb ]

Help yourself and Heaven will help you. [ French ]

It is cheap enough to say, God help you. [ Proverb ]

Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]

Harmless all malice, if our God be nigh;
Fruitless all pains, if he his help deny.
Patient I pass these gloomy hours away,
And wait the morning of eternal day! [ Lady Jane Dudley ]

Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast.
There is a Hand above will help thee on. [ Bailey ]

Infinite is the help man can yield to man. [ Carlyle ]

Heaven's help is better than early rising. [ Cervantes ]

We must not lie down, and cry, God help us. [ Proverb ]

Nobody would be afraid if he could help it. [ Smollett ]

Light is the task when many share the toil. [ Homer ]

How can man love but what he yearns to help? [ Browning ]

A help to the composition of classic poetry.

I would help others, out of a fellowfeeling. [ Burton ]

He that is fallen cannot help him that is down. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

How can the cat help it, if the maid be a fool? [ Proverb ]

It is not so with Him that all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men. [ William Shakespeare ]

And here where your praise might yield returns,
And a handsome word or two give help. [ Robert Browning ]

He calls for a shooing-horn to help on his gloves. [ Proverb ]

It is a delightful help, merely not to be hindered. [ Jean Ingelow ]

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. [ Sophocles ]

The whole trouble is, that we won't let God help us. [ George MacDonald ]

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself. [ Sophocles ]

Here stand I. I cannot act otherwise. So help me God! [ Luther at the Diet of Worms ]

Oh, help thou my weak wit, and sharpen my dull tongue! [ Spenser ]

But help me to money, and I'll help myself to friends. [ Proverb ]

The greatest things are done by the help of small ones. [ Proverb ]

Whatever we cannot help, is our misfortune, not our fault. [ Proverb ]

In man's most dark extremity 0"ft succor dawns from Heaven. [ Scott ]

If thou thyself canst do it, attend no other's help or hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All things help, quoth the wren, when she pissed in the sea. [ Proverb ]

Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see. [ Joubert ]

Experience teacheth us that resolution is a sole help in need. [ William Shakespeare ]

One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. [ Le Sage ]

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. [ William Shakespeare ]

God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

To live is not to live for one's self alone; let us help one another. [ Menander ]

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. [ George Eliot ]

To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. [ Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister." ]

'Cause I'se wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]

The books which help you most, are those which make you think the most. [ Theodore Parker ]

Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse? [ Plato ]

Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves. [ Johnson ]

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. [ Congreve ]

Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]

If we have but the right mind, all things, even those which hurt, help us. [ Spalding ]

Who can help sickness, quoth the drunken wife, when she fell into the gutter? [ Proverb ]

How can the cat help it if the maid is fool enough to leave things in her way) [ Italian Proverb ]

Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. [ Proverb ]

When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. [ Bacon ]

Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. [ La Fontaine ]

Light is a special help to obedience, and obedience is a singular help to increase light. [ Flavel ]

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. [ William Shakespeare ]

No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. [ John Ruskin ]

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first. [ George MacDonald ]

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. [ Froude ]

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. [ Johnson ]

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee. [ Christian Scriver ]

A world all sincere, a believing world; the like has been; the like will again be - cannot help being. [ Carlyle ]

It is a masterpiece to draw good out of evil, and by the help of virtue to improve misfortune into blessings. [ Seneca ]

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. [ Charles Dudley Warner ]

The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. [ Lowell ]

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. [ Hughes ]

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel. [ George Eliot ]

Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. [ O. W. Holmes ]

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. [ John Ruskin ]

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. [ Charron ]

Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. [ Wendell Phillips ]

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinction? [ Jeffrey ]

As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]

Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another? [ Maltbie Babcock ]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]

There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. [ Ruskin ]

When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]

There are two things which help to make music - melody and harmony. Now, as most of you know, there is melody in music when the different sounds of the same tune follow each other so as to give us pleasure; there is harmony in music when different sounds, instead of following each other, come at the same time so as to give us pleasure. [ C. Kingsley ]

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]

help in Scrabble®

The word help is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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help in Words With Friends™

The word help is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words within the letters of help

2 letter words in help (4 words)

4 letter words in help (1 word)

help + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving help

Shorter words in help

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Longer words containing help

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helpdesk helpdesks

helped selfhelped

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helper helpers selfhelpers

helper selfhelper selfhelpers

helpful helpfully unhelpfully

helpful helpfulness unhelpfulness

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