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Synonyms and Antonyms of helps
- offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment
advances, eases, facilitates, forwards, fosters, furthers, launches
champions, endorses (also indorses), patronizes, promotes, sponsors
attends, cares (for), comforts, ministers (to), succors
bolsters, boosts, buttresses, reinforces (also reenforces)
advises, counsels, guides, mentors, nurtures
bails out, delivers, rescues, saves
- the new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit
- they couldn't help the way things turned out
negates, neutralizes, nullifies
baffles, balks, checkmates, deters, foils, frustrates, thwarts
bars, blocks, hampers, hinders, impedes, interferes (with), retards, stalls
deflects, fends (off), stops, wards (off)
avoids, circumvents, dodges, ducks, eludes, escapes, eschews, evades, shakes, shirks, shuns
compensates (for), counteracts, counterbalances, makes up (for), offsets
- being independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist
- some minor revisions would help this essay immensely
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