Break and Help

Break

Break verb - To reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of.
Usage example: I broke a tooth on the hard candy

Help is an antonym for break in topics: weaken, destroy.

Help

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

Break is an antonym for help.

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

How words are described

emotional emotional break emotional help
good good break good help
nice nice break nice help
best best break best help
Other adjectives: actual, real, massive, big, serious, huge, little, new, major, mental, psychological, possible, final, last, occasional, magical.

Common collocations

character break character help character
people break people help people
deal break deal help deal
time break time help time
Other words: way, world, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Stock Dinosaurs (True Dinosaurs) Although given the keratinous sheath would have made the horn less likely to break and help better shape it, goring may still be plausible.
  • Film / Undefeatable Kristy's fights catch the attention of police detective Nick DiMarco (John Miller), who decides to cut her a break and help her out in his own way.
  • So in the span of a relatively short conversation he used his experience to almost completely break Sieg- but out of a sincere desire to help the young knight.
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