Help and Muff

Help

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

Muff is an antonym for help.

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

Muff

Muff verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.
Usage example: muffed the repair job and had to do it again

Help is an antonym for muff.

Nearby Words: muffle, muffled, muffed

Both words in one sentence

  • Webcomic / Shredded Moose In "Rim Shot" Brew uses his "mad" basketball skills and streetwise smack talk to "school" a bunch of third graders Trip and Muff are rightfully horrified when they see Brew has baked two cakes shaped like sex organs for the purpose of cramming one into the other and tell him to get help.
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