Help and Let down

Opposite meaning terms

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

Usage example: offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment

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Let down is an antonym for help.

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

Let down verb - To fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of.

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Help is an antonym for let down.

The let down of Emma taking a level in badass at the end of season two, only to be killed off screen in the first episode of season three didn't help.

Source: Replacement Scrappy / Live-Action TV
Chuck does this without even knowing whenever he's let down by Sarah, or when he needs to persuade her to help him.

Source: Puppy Dog Eyes / Live-Action TV
Frank Powell Damaged Soul: Athamar, not to mention Nathan and Elena... Dare to Be Badass: Inverted in Locked Within as both Roland and Libby tell Nathan not to bother trying to help the people of New York, because they've already been let down enough.

Source: Literature / The Memory Wars

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