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Nouns (18)

n. instruction offered by a program about how to use the software application or one of its features

n. an interactive help utility guiding the user through a difficult task

n. 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"

aid, assistance, help

n. a resource; "visual aids in teaching"

avail, help, service

n. a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"

assistant, helper, help, supporter

n. 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"

Verbs (8)

help

v. contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

help

v. improve; change for the better; "New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"

help oneself, help

v. 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"

avail, help

v. take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"

serve, help

v. help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

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Fuzzynyms (142)

social welfare, welfare, public assistance

n. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need; "she lives on welfare"

alms-giving, almsgiving

n. making voluntary contributions to aid the poor

contribution, part, share

n. the part played by a person in bringing about a result; "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work"

subsidy

n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public; "a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence"

catcher

n. the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "a catcher plays behind the plate"

asset, plus

n. a useful or valuable quality

benefit, welfare

n. something that aids or promotes well-being; "for the benefit of all"

blessing, boon

n. a desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors"

advantage, reward

n. benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"

use

n. a particular service; "he put his knowledge to good use"; "patrons have their uses"

adjutant, aide, aide-de-camp

n. an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer

companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate

n. a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"

orderly

n. a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer; "the orderly laid out the general's uniform"

orderly, hospital attendant

n. a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

apprentice, learner, prentice

n. works for an expert to learn a trade

associate

n. a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners"

champion, fighter, hero, paladin

n. someone who fights for a cause

exponent

n. someone who expounds and interprets or explains

supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend

n. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"

follower

n. a person who accepts the leadership of another

apostle

n. an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform; "an apostle of revolution"

quick study, sponge

n. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

flunky, flunkey, stooge, yes-man

n. a person of unquestioning obedience

lackey, flunky, flunkey

n. a male servant (especially a footman)

crawler, creeper

n. a person who crawls or creeps along the ground

inferior

n. one of lesser rank or station or quality

follower

n. someone who travels behind or pursues another

attendant, attender, attendee, meeter

n. a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

Butler, Samuel Butler

n. English poet (1612-1680)

chauffeur

n. a man paid to drive a privately owned car

cook

n. someone who cooks food

maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah

n. a female domestic

steward

n. the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements

steward, flight attendant

n. an attendant on an airplane

valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man

n. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"

disciple, adherent

n. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another

charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman

n. a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

woman

n. a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"

woman, adult female

n. an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

man, adult male

n. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"

workman, workingman, working man, working person

n. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

hired hand, hand, hired man

n. a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"

abet

v. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

keep, maintain, hold

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

profit, gain, benefit

v. derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience"

serve, help

v. help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish

v. provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show"

reclaim

v. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"

transform

v. increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)

translate, transform

v. change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"

transform, transmute, transubstantiate

v. change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"

slake, abate, slack

v. make less active or intense

decrease, lessen, minify

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

strengthen, beef up, fortify

v. make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"

administer, dispense

v. give or apply (medications)

comfort, ease

v. lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs"

reduce

v. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

simplify

v. make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"

prey on, profit from, feed off

v. profit from

profit, gain, benefit

v. derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience"

help

v. contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

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Antonyms (16)

hindrance, hinderance, interference

n. the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

difficulty, difficultness

n. the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"

persecute, oppress

v. cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate

v. make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

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