Help and Irritate

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Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Irritate is an antonym for help in improve topic.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Irritate verb - To disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts.

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Help is an antonym for irritate in topics: upset, hurt.

man	help man	irritate man
family	help family	irritate family
rest	help rest	irritate rest
time	help time	irritate time
Other words: characters, bit, father, player, sister, players.

But he does manage to irritate Rincewind sufficiently to get him to hang on until help arrives.

Source: Take My Hand
Ruffnut and Tuffnut (with the help of Snotlout this time) once again irritate the dragon to accomplish this goal, this time using the sheep tosser from dragon racing, while Fishlegs reprises his "I'm okay".

Source: Western Animation / How to Train Your Dragon 2
Word of God indicates they knew any amount of pestering outside of action scenes would only irritate players, whereas having their companion show some personality in what they chose to investigate and even help by pointing out pickups endeared her to them.

Source: Continue Your Mission, Dammit!

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