Help and Subduing

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

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Subduing is an antonym for help.

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

Subduing noun - The act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control.

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Help is an antonym for subduing in moderate topic.

Nearby Words: subdue, subdued, subdual

Obviously, play some 'subduing' pranks on your boastful, corrupt father to take him down a peg, then develop your latent psychokinetic powers to help that nice teacher who recognised your genius.

Source: Plucky Girl
In the novel when Sha Wujing was first encountered, Sanzang was cowering in a corner while the disciples tried subduing Wujing but failed - In the end requiring the help of Guan Yin to recruit Sha Wujing.

Source: Series / Journey to the West (1996)
Meet Cute: In Vivat Regina, Mary and Arthur meet when, while Mary is on a stakeout for a case, she comes across him needing a spot of help subduing a ruffian.

Source: Theatre / Mrs Hawking

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