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(n)
Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
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(v)
(transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
To diligently work on; to pay attention to.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
(colloquial) To wait for (a person).
The act of giving aid or assistance (to).
(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
The act of one who aids or assists.
A person who aids or assists.
(adj)
That supports.
Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
(transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
An act or an instance of something being enabled.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
Having a practical or beneficial use.
To make easy or easier.
The act of facilitating or making easy.
Made easier.
The act of attending; the state of being present; presence.
(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
(transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
(transitive) To provide housing for.
(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
To look upon fondly; to prefer.
(transitive) To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly; to give an endorsement.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
(transitive) To create.
(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
(transitive) To enter data.
(transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
An assistant.
(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
A person who assists or helps someone else.
To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
(transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
(transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
(transitive) To furnish proof of, to show.
The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
The act of attributing something.
To move toward the speaker.
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
(transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
(transitive) To help keep from falling.
(intransitive) To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
That sustains, supports or provides sustenance.
(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
(transitive) To give (an award).
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
Something that is intended.
(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
British standard spelling of favor.
(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
(transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
Helped or aided.
To augment or make something greater.
To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
The removal of stress or discomfort.
To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
(Canada, US, Philippines) A carer; a person who looks after another person.
(adv)
more easily
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
encouragement; aiding the development of something
(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
(transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to form a basis of; to corroborate.
(transitive, figurative) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.
(ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
(transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
(transitive, often figurative) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
(intransitive) To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.
(slang, vulgar) Extremely annoying or frustrating.
A surname.
having help; often used as a combining form