Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Sour
Sour verb - To cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- No matter how many times her attempts to help have gone sour, she will not stop trying to help.
Source: Determinator / Web Original - Sour Supporter: For all her unfriendliness, Fi does help Dethany in some big ways, including lending a temporary home.
Source: Comic Strip / On The Fastrack - It doesn't help the writer's reboot makes the husband an over-the-top horrible man (who was based on her Real Life husband before that relationship went sour).
Source: All Take and No Give
Cite this Source
Sour and Help. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/sour
Help & Sour. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/sour>.
Sour or Help. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/help/sour.
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