Help and Prop up

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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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Prop up and help are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prop up" instead a verb "Help".

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

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

Usage example: invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis

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Help and prop up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Help" instead a verb "Prop up".

While Zebedee and Zak leave to get help, Top Hat uses Zebedee's steel rig to prop up the bridge whilst Puffa travels across it.

Source: Track Trouble
He almost never misses, but at anything past point blank range he has to line up his shots carefully, adjust his sights and he often uses a solid base to help prop up and steady his weapon.

Source: Film / Quigley Down Under

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