Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Turning away is an antonym for help.
Turning away
Turning away noun - Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
Both terms in one sentence
- Lola from Kit Whitfield's Benighted is pathetic, self-loathing and self destructive, turning away from or turning on anyone who might help her.
Source: Classical Anti-Hero -
In the Apprentice Adept series: Lady Blue is introduced as a healer who would treat anyone who came upon her door, only turning away those beyond her power to help.
Source: Healing Hands
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