Help and Spare

Help

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

Spare and help are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead a verb "Help".

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

Spare

Spare verb - To use or give out in stingy amounts.

Help and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Help" instead a verb "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

girl help girl spare girl
humanity help humanity spare humanity
life help life spare life
man help man spare man
Other words: people, children, family, someone, world, mother, anyone, everyone, humans, friends.

Both words in one sentence

  • Androcles' Lion A similar story tells of how King Solomon was stung by a bee once and wanted to kill it, but it asked him to spare her so she'd help him some day.
  • Series / Grimm Non-Idle Rich: Though not exactly rich, Monroe is affluent enough to indulge in fairly niche hobbies and has enough spare time to help Nick out on a regular basis.
  • A Day in Her Apron The message is that you can't trust him to do it right, so instead of even asking the rest of your family for help, buy this product and you can do it all yourself and have some spare time left over.
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