Help and Relent

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

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

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

Relent verb - To cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control).

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Help and relent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Help" instead a verb "Relent".

Nearby Word: relenting

Neither wants to relent on leaving any of their things, until they see Elly, who was camping with them, leaving the only thing she brought, her tiny teddy bear, to help make the plane lighter.

Source: Lots of Luggage
Though Mentor does relent and give the protagonist some training in psychic combat, he generally avoids directly aiding his students and criticizes them for asking him for help or advice when they don't really need it.

Source: Sink-or-Swim Mentor

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