Bait and Help

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Bait verb - To attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults.

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Help is an antonym for bait in needle topic.

Nearby Words: baited, baiting, baiter, baity

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

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Bait is an antonym for help.

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

good	good bait	good help
female	female bait	female help
special	special bait	special help
best	best bait	best help
Other adjectives: better, genuine, actual, real, massive, big, serious, little, supernatural, new, major, unexpected, unwilling.

person	bait person	help person
character	bait character	help character
family	bait family	help family
team	bait team	help team
Other words: rest, mother, harry, survivors.

As Scout retorts that he never needed Spy's help and is going to put on a date anyway, Spy can be seen trying not to smile because Scout is taking the bait hook, line, and sinker.

Source: Machinima / Team Fortress 2
Schmuck Bait: Trails of blood, doors opening on their own and whimpers for help are all but commonplace in the Surrogate School.

Source: Light Novel / A Lullaby Sinister
Kids Are Cruel: A sidequest in The Following has a child cry for help over the radio, Crane then goes to the warehouse where he was trapped with his brother, only to find out that the whole thing was a ploy by a group of kids to bait people into fighting a Demolisher.

Source: Video Game / Dying Light

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