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as in assistance, reliefas in employee
as in aid, assistas in improve

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helps

noun as in assistance, relief

Strongest matches

  • advice
  • aid
  • benefit
  • comfort
  • cooperation
  • guidance
  • hand
  • service
  • support
  • use

Strong matches

  • assist
  • avail
  • balm
  • corrective
  • cure
  • lift
  • maintenance
  • nourishment
  • remedy
  • succor
  • sustenance
  • utility

Weak match

  • helping hand

noun as in employee

Strongest matches

  • hand
  • worker

Strong matches

  • abettor
  • adjutant
  • aide
  • ally
  • assistant
  • attendant
  • auxiliary
  • collaborator
  • colleague
  • deputy
  • domestic
  • helper
  • helpmate
  • mate
  • partner
  • representative
  • servant
  • subsidiary
  • supporter

Weak match

  • right-hand person

verb as in aid, assist

Strongest matches

  • back
  • benefit
  • bolster
  • boost
  • cooperate
  • encourage
  • further
  • maintain
  • promote
  • push
  • save
  • serve
  • stimulate
  • support

Strong matches

  • abet
  • accommodate
  • advocate
  • ballyhoo
  • befriend
  • cheer
  • endorse
  • hype
  • intercede
  • patronize
  • plug
  • prop
  • puff
  • relieve
  • sanction
  • second
  • succor
  • sustain
  • uphold

Weak matches

  • be of use
  • buck up
  • do a favor
  • do a service
  • do one's part
  • go to bat for
  • go with
  • lend a hand
  • open doors
  • root for
  • see through
  • stand by
  • stick up for
  • stump for
  • take under one's wing
  • work for

verb as in improve

Strongest matches

  • alleviate
  • ease
  • facilitate
  • restore
  • revive
  • treat

Strong matches

  • ameliorate
  • amend
  • attend
  • better
  • cure
  • doctor
  • heal
  • meliorate
  • mitigate
  • nourish
  • palliate
  • relieve
  • remedy

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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