Help and Lay

Help

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

Lay is an antonym for help.

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

Lay

Lay verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.

Help is an antonym for lay in credit topic.

Nearby Words: laying, laid

Common collocations

life help life lay life
people help people lay people
way help way lay way
times help times lay times

Both words in one sentence

  • Instead of getting help, his remarkably fat lieutenant just smothered him as he lay on the ground.
  • It really doesn't help that Meer herself was carrying the photo with her and gave it to Lacus when she lay dying in her arms.
  • Even when Sylvia calls for his help, he continues to lay there and she just assumes he's being lazy.
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