Help
Help noun - An act or instance of helping.
Usage example: I could use your help getting this tire back on the car
Repression is an antonym for help.
Repression
Repression noun - The checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others.
How words are described
| emotional | emotional help | emotional repression |
| female | female help | female repression |
| serious | serious help | serious repression |
| personal | personal help | personal repression |
| Other adjectives: secret, psychological, soviet, technological. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Help Face Turn: Do not ignore that you have armor and your men dont' Hoist by His Own Petard: A danger of repression Honorary Uncle: Does not make a man less dangerous.
Source: Literature / Spiral Arm -
Even by real world standards, that's pretty hellish treatment; in fact, it would fall squarely in the area of Cruel and Unusualnote It doesn't help that surgical repression is considered a crime against humanity, and was infamously practiced in Nazi concentration camps and The Gulag.
Source: The Alcatraz
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