Help and Scare off

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

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Scare off is an antonym for help.

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

Scare off verb - Cause to lose courage.

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Help is an antonym for scare off in topics: shock, frighten.

Useless Boyfriend: The Accused's parents scare off the Pastor very easily, and he's not all that much emotional help at the gallows, either.

Source: Theatre / Fall River Legend
He only survives because a Helium airship arrives to scare off the surviving Tharks and provide immediate medical help.

Source: Last Stand
It certainly doesn't help that her looks scare off as many people in that she appears to be a delinquent, when deep inside she would like to be friends with them.

Source: Broken Ace

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