Help and Restraint

Help

Help noun - An act or instance of helping.
Usage example: I could use your help getting this tire back on the car

Restraint is an antonym for help.

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

Restraint

Restraint noun - The checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others.

Help is an antonym for restraint in topics: limitation, self-control.

How words are described

emotional emotional help emotional restraint
human human help human restraint
good good help good restraint
physical physical help physical restraint
Other adjectives: best, similar, considerable, legal, proper, great, little, personal, practical, mental, less, military, significant, tremendous, last, external, technological.

Both words in one sentence

  • School Play After being taught some restraint by Doug, Todd rejoins the group for their performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest and gives a rousing performance as Prospero, with some stage magic help from Doug.
    Source: School Play
  • Incurable Cough of Death But he coughed with due restraint, lowering his head each time as if to indicate that he could not help it — that it was really something he had nothing to do with but which he must endure.
  • Employee restraint clauses—also called restrictive covenants or covenants not to compete—are supposed to help defy this by preventing companies from creating their own competitors, at least for a time.
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