Help
Help verb - To provide with something useful or desirable.
Usage example: being independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist
Upset
How words are described
| emotional | emotional help | emotional upset |
| good | good help | good upset |
| better | better help | better upset |
| likely | likely help | likely upset |
| Other adjectives: real, massive, great, huge, little, major, occasional. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In Farmer in the Sky, Bill doesn't understand why Gretchen would get upset when she comes over to help him work and he immediately mentions they should also ask her sister to help.
Source: Chaste Hero -
Being childishly blunt and not knowing any better doesn't help any - and if Elodie is rude enough, she can start a civil war, either by upset nobles or upset peasants.
Source: Royal Brat -
Driven to Suicide: The Eighth Doctor, upset at Cass refusing his help due to what the Time Lords have become, remains on the ship as it crashes.
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