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Synonyms and Antonyms of helping
- offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment
advancing, easing, facilitating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, launching
championing, endorsing (also indorsing), patronizing, promoting, sponsoring
attending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), succoring
bolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing (also reenforcing)
advising, counseling (or counselling), guiding, mentoring, nurturing
bailing out, delivering, rescuing, saving
emboldening, encouraging, heartening
benefiting (also benefitting), favoring, obliging, profiting, serving
balking, barring, blocking, constraining, hampering, handicapping, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, obstructing, restraining, strangling
baffling, foiling, frustrating, inconveniencing, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwarting
deserting, disappointing, failing, letting down
- the new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit
- they couldn't help the way things turned out
negating, neutralizing, nullifying
baffling, balking, checkmating, deterring, foiling, frustrating, thwarting
barring, blocking, hampering, hindering, impeding, interfering (with), retarding, stalling
deflecting, fending (off), stopping, warding (off)
avoiding, circumventing, dodging, ducking, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning
forbidding, inhibiting, prohibiting
arresting, checking, halting, stopping
compensating (for), counteracting, counterbalancing, making up (for), offsetting
- being independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist
advantaging, availing, benefiting (also benefitting), profiting, serving
- some minor revisions would help this essay immensely
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