Help and Shrink from

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

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Shrink from is an antonym for help.

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

Shrink from verb - Avoid (one's assigned duties).

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Help is an antonym for shrink from in topics: prevent, stop short.

Deadpan Snarker: Vicar Clement does his level best not to offend his parishioners, but can't help slipping in a snide remark or two when they start to get too melodramatic.Miss Weatherby: I do shrink from publicity.

Source: Literature / The Murder at the Vicarage aka: Murder At The Vicarage

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