Help and Keep from

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

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Keep from is an antonym for help.

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

Keep from verb - To resist the temptation of.

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Help is an antonym for keep from in topics: withstand, resist the temptation to.

Ayato and Hinami spend quite a bit of time together, and he has to be physically restrained by Naki of all people to keep from charging off to help her when she's captured by Arima and Squad 0.

Source: Manga / Tokyo Ghoul
Very soon, however, he finds that Gravity Falls is a place in a category all its own, and that he might need a little help to keep from getting in over his head.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Gravity Falls
Kyuubi later shows Angron's memories to Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune so they can both help Naruto keep from being like him and to prepare for the worst should he do so anyway.

Source: Horrifying the Horror

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