Crossword clues for helped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Help \Help\ (h[e^]lp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (h[e^]lpt) (Obs. imp. Holp (h[=o]lp), p. p. Holpen (h[=o]l"p'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, ``Help me scale yon balcony.''
--Longfellow.To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. ``God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!''
--Shak.-
To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object. ``To help him of his blindness.''
--Shak.The true calamus helps coughs.
--Gerarde. -
To change for the better; to remedy.
Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.
--Shak. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?
--Swift.-
To forbear; to avoid.
I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author.
--Pope. -
To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.
To help forward, to assist in advancing.
To help off, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing.
--Locke.To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.
To help out, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.
The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help him out.
--Swift.To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle.
To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup.
To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. ``A man is well holp up that trusts to you.''
--Shak.Syn: To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support; sustain; befriend.
Usage: To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all agree in the idea of affording relief or support to a person under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and supposes co["o]peration on the part of him who is relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought. Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a person who ``stands by'' in order to relieve. It denotes both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person who is weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted the stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by the help of my friend.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: help)
Usage examples of "helped".
If he can get to this wizard before he turns the Sisters down for the third time, he can learn whether he can be helped without them .
For a long time its practical effect was small, but ultimately, whenever circumstances were favorable, it helped in bringing about the diminution of the inequalities in the social system.
As the soldiers helped her away, the wizard turned his attention to Trimack.
Sometimes the events themselves helped them to decipher where it was to be placed chronologically, but only sometimes.
He held Siddin in one arm as he reached up with the other and helped Kahlan down.
Grass tied in bands at their upper arms and around their heads helped make them invisible in the surrounding grassland when they chose to be.
Picking up both their packs, she put a hand under Richard's arm and helped him to his feet.
It sat by itself, moonlight reflecting off the tile roof Richard had helped the Mud People build.
She has already helped me, and I am confident she will soon cure me of them.
Weber helped his friend sit up and, with a handful of straw, wiped the blood from the healed wound.
It was a morning glory, meant to represent his awakening awareness of the gift, an awareness she had helped to blossom.
The ground was uneven, tangled with roots and brush, but the glowing footprints helped her to see the way.
The lamp lit itself, adding a soft glow to that of the fire in the large hearth made of smooth river stones, and helped illuminate the dark walls of the room.
He wondered if maybe he didn't need the collar, if Zedd could have helped him without it.
They bring me none, save perhaps that they have helped me preserve your life this night.