Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Usage example: offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment
Thwart
Thwart verb - To prevent from achieving a goal.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- She's in peril a lot, but it doesn't stop her from doing her best to thwart the bad guys and help Billy save her (sometimes, she even saves him).
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Garrett even temporarily allies with the Hammerites to help them thwart the Big Bad and his plan.
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In Magic: The Gathering, even the most selfish planeswalkers (godlike multiverse-travelling mages) sometimes help the good guys to thwart something even more horrible.
Source: Evil Versus Oblivion
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