ALL meanings of can't help but
can't help but
C c - verb with object can't help but to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages. 1
- verb with object can't help but to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling! 1
- verb with object can't help but to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate: The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace. 1
- verb with object can't help but to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career. 1
- verb with object can't help but to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot): He can't help doing it. 1
- verb with object can't help but to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior. 1
- verb with object can't help but to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress. 1
- verb with object can't help but to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache. 1
- verb with object can't help but to serve food to at table (usually followed by to): Help her to salad. 1
- verb with object can't help but to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store. 1
- verb without object can't help but to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps. 1
- noun can't help but the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor. 1
- noun can't help but a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency. 1
- noun can't help but a hired helper; employee. 1
- noun can't help but a body of such helpers. 1
- noun can't help but a domestic servant or a farm laborer. 1
- noun can't help but means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now. 1
- noun can't help but Older Use. helping (def 2). 1
- idioms can't help but cannot / can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to: Still, you can't help but admire her. 1
- idioms can't help but help oneself to, to serve oneself; take a portion of: Help yourself to the cake. to take or use without asking permission; appropriate: They helped themselves to the farmer's apples. Help yourself to any of the books we're giving away. 1
- idioms can't help but so help me, (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor: That's exactly what happened, so help me. 1