Help and Work on

Opposite meaning terms

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

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Work on is an antonym for help.

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

Work on verb - To exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something.

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Help is an antonym for work on in topics: bother, demand, pressure, nag, harass.

The fact Hooper's detractors saw this as proof that his work on Poltergeist was minimal and that Steven Spielberg did all the heavy lifting didn't help matters.

Source: Creator Killer / Film Individual Creators
The Watcher: Maca'hzar is presented as one, as he affirms that his magic wouldn't work on Barney, so he can only help Jeremy indirectly.

Source: Fan Fic / Day of the Barney Trilogy
Raven, believing there is no hope, complies, but saves her friends, who work on defeating Trigon after the world ends, shockingly enough with the help of Slade.

Source: Apocalypse Maiden

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