Help and Rival

Opposite meaning words

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

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Rival is an antonym for help.

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

Rival verb - To engage in a contest.

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Help is an antonym for rival in oppose topic.

Nearby Words: rivalry, rivaled, rivaling, rivalled

good	good help	good rival
female	female help	female rival
best	best help	best rival
direct	direct help	direct rival
Other adjectives: dead, actual, real, big, great, serious, personal, new, professional, major, possible, final, last, competent.

When a king requested help in defeating his rival, his pet dog kills and retrieves the head of said rival.

Source: Bestiality Is Depraved
The Resenter: Ortega, Cornell's rival, who envied Cornell's mastery of his alternate form and sought Dracula's help to match him.

Source: Video Game / Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
It also doesn't help that his best friend and rival Juno has extremely potent magical potential.

Source: Dream-Crushing Handicap

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