Help and Roughhousing

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

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Roughhousing is an antonym for help.

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

Roughhousing noun - Wildly playful or mischievous behavior.

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Help is an antonym for roughhousing in topics: strike, push, physically hurt or injure, treat badly or wrongly, handle harshly.

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