Help and Lean on

Opposite meaning terms

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

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Lean on is an antonym for help.

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

Lean on verb - Rest on for support.

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Help is an antonym for lean on in topics: bother, attack, mangle, compel, pressure.

However Rei returned right after Shinji's choice, whereas Shinji and Asuka spent ten years surviving alone in the devastated world, forced to lean on and help each other in order to survive, before going back.

Source: Peggy Sue
Defenders of three galaxies people; At least the Ancients, Nox, Furlings, and Asgard supposedly had each other to lean on for active help.

Source: Humans Are Leaders
Ichigo tends to stab the ground and lean on his sword when he needs a prop to help him stay standing.

Source: Sword Plant

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