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say it: help
help is a verb and noun meaning "give help or assistance; be of service". It carries 12 recorded senses.
improve the condition of
“These pills will help the patient”
abstain from doing; always used with a negative
“I can't help myself--I have to smoke”
“She could not help watching the sad spectacle”
contribute to the furtherance of
“This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for help come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.