Help and Knock down

Opposite meaning terms

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

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Knock down is an antonym for help.

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

Knock down verb - To receive as return for effort.

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Help is an antonym for knock down in topics: overthrow, destroy, perplex, humiliate, repulse.

He even sends a bit of behind-the-scenes "help" to the last remnants of the traitors, so they'll be able to knock down Aspia's castle walls for him before they die.

Source: Videogame / Shining Force III
When you help Ji attack a Hozen village, you find a jade statue, itself a Chekhov's Gun, that is the only thing he can't break, so he uses it as a battering ram to knock down a gate near the end of your quests, and he later follows Aysa to Stormwind when she joins the Alliance.

Source: Chekhovs Gunman / Video Games
He then calls his plumber plumber, "Honest" Ramone, to help knock down the walls and fix allegedly corroded pipes.

Source: Honest John's Dealership

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