Help Definition and Examples

Meaning of Help: To offer someone assistance so that they may complete a task with ease, surmount an obstacle, or expend less energy. It can also be to rescue the person.

Examples:

• “His assignment was due on Monday and he needed help so I worked with him on it.”
• “I’ll help you fix the car if you will help me move my furniture to the second floor.”
• “I have had very little help from doctors and no sympathy whatsoever.”

Other Words for Help

Popular synonyms for “help”. 

• Assist
• Improve
• Benefit
• Give (lend) a hand
• Guide
• Aid
• Put yourself out (for someone)
• Comfort
• Boost
• Better

Huge list of 180+ different words to use instead of “help”.

• Abet
• Accommodate
• Address
• Advance
• Advantage
• Advocate
• Afford
• Aid
• Allay
• Alleviate
• Allow
• Ameliorate
• Amend
• Argue
• Assist
• Assuage
• Attend
• Avail
• Avert
• Avoid
• Back
• Back up
• Balm
• Be advantageous
• Be of assistance
• Be supportive
• Become
• Befriend
• Benefit
• Better
• Bolster
• Boost
• Bring
• Care
• Care for
• Carry
• Cheer
• Comfort
• Conduce
• Console
• Contribute
• Contribute to
• Control
• Convenience
• Cooperate
• Countenance
• Cultivate
• Cure
• Deliver
• Dish out
• Do a favor
• Do a service
• Ease
• Encourage
• Endorse
• Endorsing
• Enhance
• Ensure
• Escape
• Eschew
• Expedite
• Facilitate
• Fault
• Finance
• Fortify
• Forward
• Foster
• Fund
• Furnish
• Further
• Furthers
• Gain
• Give
• Give a hand
• Go to bat for
• Goad
• Grant
• Gratify
• Hand
• Have
• Heal
• Help out
• Hint
• Hold
• Impede
• Improve
• Incite
• Inform
• Inhibit
• Inspirit
• Instigate
• Keep
• Lead
• Lend
• Lend a hand
• Lend a helping hand
• Lift
• Lighten
• Look after
• Maintain
• Make
• Make easier
• Make easy
• Make over
• Manage
• Meliorate
• Minister
• Mitigate
• Move
• Need
• Nourish
• Nurture
• Oblige
• Obviating
• Offer
• Operate
• Palliate
• Participate
• Partner
• Patronize
• Perform
• Permit
• Pitch
• Pitch in
• Place
• Play
• Please
• Pour
• Preclude
• Prevent
• Prod
• Profit
• Promote
• Prompt
• Prop
• Prop up
• Provide
• Provoke
• Push
• Raise
• Reach
• Refrain from
• Relieve
• Remedy
• Rescue
• Rescuing
• Restore
• Revive
• Right
• Salvage
• Save
• Serve
• Service
• Set up
• Shake
• Shall
• Simplify
• Smooth
• Solace
• Soothe
• Spare
• Speed
• Sponsor
• Stand by
• Start
• Stick up for
• Stimulate
• Stop
• Strengthen
• Subsidize
• Succor
• Supply
• Support
• Sustain
• Take
• Tend
• Treat
• Underpin
• Upgrade
• Uphold
• Urge
• Use
• Wait
• Work

Help Synonyms with Examples

Assist

• Example: Anyone willing to assist can contact this number.

Improve

• Example: Steroid injections will improve your condition.

Benefit

• Example: Hiring Marwa would benefit this office greatly.

Give (lend) a hand

• Example: He always gives a hand to anyone in difficulty.

Guide

• Example: She took her arm and guided her across the busy road.

Aid

• Example: Each group is aided by a tutor or consultant.

Put yourself out (for someone)

• Example: Please don’t put yourself out on my account.

Comfort

• Example: She comforted herself with the thought that it would soon be spring.

Boost

• Example: Here are a few tricks that will boost your productivity.

Better

• Example: To better your chances of winning the tennis tournament, take a few lessons.

More interesting examples with the word “help”

• “I help out with the secretarial work.”
• “Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them.”
• “I’m sorry but there’s no way we can help you.”
• ” They inserted a tube in his mouth to help him breathe.”
• “Without help, many elderly people would be left isolated.”
• “The UN pledged to help supervise the clearance of mines.”
• “Any help or donations will be gratefully received.”