Help and Lead on

Opposite meaning terms

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

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Lead on is an antonym for help.

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

Lead on verb - To lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage.

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Help is an antonym for lead on in topics: involve, mislead, provoke, aggravate.

This doesn't help McClane escape his predicament, but it does give them a lead on where to find Gruber later.

Source: Last Request
This is pretty sleazy even for Bond, but he agrees anyway because the mafioso has access to information beyond the reach of official organizations and can help him get a lead on the head of SPECTRE, Enrst Stavro Blofeld (played now by Telly Savalas).

Source: Film / On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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