Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
How words are described
| good | good help | good try |
| nice | nice help | nice try |
| special | special help | special try |
| best | best help | best try |
| Other adjectives: proper, actual, real, big, great, huge, practical, new, major, general, possible, final, less, extra, last, competent. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Salamanders look scary but are very much good guys, while God-Emperor help you if the Flesh Tearers or Marines Malevolent are the ones to try and help.
- Even the best ending seems to give him the shaft, and more than a few people can't help but feel obligated to try and help give even him a happy ending.
Source: Fanfic Fuel -
It is just her imagination and she doesn't take the overdose, deciding instead to try and help herself instead of relying on others to do so.
Source: Series / My Mad Fat Diary
Cite this Source
Try and Help. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/try
Help & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/try>.
Try or Help. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/try.
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