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aid
noun as in help, support
Strongest matches
assistance, benefit, care, compensation, cooperation, gift, relief, service, subsidy, treatment
Strong matches
advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benevolence, bounty, charity, comfort, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, rescue, reward, salvation, sustenance
Weak matches
verb as in help, support
Weak matches
bail out, go to bat for, go with, lend a hand, open doors for, stick up for, straighten out
Example Sentences
Perez vowed "the biggest deportation plan in Spain's recent history" targeted at immigrants who commit crimes and financed by freezing all foreign aid.
Israel has released the five remaining Spanish detainees from flotillas it blocked while they were carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists to devastated Gaza, sources at Spain's foreign ministry said on Sunday.
As anxious but relieved Israeli families counted down the hours until their loved ones' return, desperate Palestinians picked through the ruins of their homes in Gaza City and aid trucks queued to deliver badly needed supplies.
The third day of the ceasefire saw some aid trucks cross into Gaza, but residents in Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip, said some shipments were being ransacked by starving residents in chaotic scenes.
"We don't want to live in a jungle. We demand aid be secured and respectfully distributed," said Mohammed Zarab.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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