Definitions for helps

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helps help

Spelling: [help]

IPA: /hɛlp/

Helps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 2 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in helps (ehlps).

Definitions for helps

noun

1. the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
2. a person or thing that helps:
3. a hired helper; employee.
4. a body of such helpers.
5. a domestic servant or a farm laborer.
6. means of remedying, stopping, or preventing:
7. Older Use. helping (def 2).

Idioms

1. cannot / can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to:
2. help oneself to, to serve oneself; take a portion of: to take or use without asking permission; appropriate:
3. so help me, (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor:

Verb phrases

1. help out, to assist in an effort; be of aid to:

interjection

1. (used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention.)

verb (used with object)

1. to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist:
2. to save; rescue; succor:
3. to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate:
4. to be useful or profitable to:
5. to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot):
6. to relieve or break the uniformity of:
7. to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress.
8. to remedy, stop, or prevent:
9. to serve food to at table (usually followed by to):
10. to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store.

verb (used without object)

1. to give aid; be of service or advantage:

Origin of helps

before 900; Middle English helpen, Old English helpan; cognate with German helfen

Examples for helps

I shall marry you, if you think I'm the woman to help you in that big, new life of yours.

That you will take tea with us to-morrow evening, and help us do justice to them.

Many hold classes in their living rooms, asking students to help re-arrange and then later put back furniture.

Finding the common bonds that help us realize that we have far more in common than that which separates us.

"I hear they do have dreadful times with help in New York," said Mrs. Bines.

I have been thinking about that day, wondering what I could do to help you.

That strategy has been used in some cases to help determine GMO policy.

I had a warm regard for your father, and shall be glad to help your mother if there is any occasion.

In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.

A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.