Help and Restrain

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Help

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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Antonyms for Help
Restrain is an antonym for help.
Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Restrain

Restrain verb - To keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression).
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Synonyms for Restrain
Antonyms for Restrain
Help is an antonym for restrain in hold back topic.
Nearby Words: restraint, restricted, restraining
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Common collocations

friend help friend restrain friend
character help character restrain character
hero help hero restrain hero
man help man restrain man
Other words: woman, people, someone, crew, way, victims, girls.

Both words in one sentence

  • Eventually, Cyril still wants to help his son so badly that Cedric is forced to all but physically restrain him lest he kill himself with overexertion.
    Source: Reluctant Retiree
  • Enfant Terrible Her response to their parents' murder was to restrain Shaula with her Vectors, taunt her about how Shaula couldn't go to anyone for help any more, and then attack her with a knife.
    Source: Enfant Terrible
  • Gilligan Cut In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, as Monkey trains Po to restrain his punches to help Kwan the Unkillable win in his last match using plates...
    Source: Gilligan Cut
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