Help and Pass up

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

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Pass up is an antonym for help.

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

Pass up verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.

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Help is an antonym for pass up in topics: avoid, turn away, do without, get away from.

Enemy Eats Your Lunch: As a logical extension of Kleptomaniac Hero, Thorn doesn't pass up the chance to help himself to the food he finds in the flats he visits.

Source: Film / Soylent Green
Starfire and Robin pass up numerous perfect moments, but most noticeably before Robin leaves in "The End" to help Slade find Raven, and a few times in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.

Source: Almost Kiss
Fletcher and Godber even pass up a chance of a pardon for stopping him, so that Reg can surrender on his own and finally get some much needed help.

Source: Series / Porridge

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