Help and Tar

Opposite meaning words

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

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Tar is an antonym for help.

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

Tar verb - Coat with tar.

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Help is an antonym for tar in topics: corrupt, dirty, defile, criticize.

Nearby Words: tarred, tared

The fact that she becomes covered by black, tar-like abominations certainly doesn't help.

Source: Anime / Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa
She asks Cole to help her get rid of the black tar that's poisoning her patients.

Source: Video Game / inFAMOUS
Except Nick's decided not to go...We see Annie and her thugs beat the living tar out of Nick (it doesn't help that Nick takes the opportunity to taunt Annie's "brokenness").

Source: Film / The Invisible

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