ALL meanings of helped
help
H h - verb with object helped 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 helped to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling! 1
- verb with object helped 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 helped to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career. 1
- verb with object helped to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot): He can't help doing it. 1
- verb with object helped to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior. 1
- verb with object helped to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress. 1
- verb with object helped to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache. 1
- verb with object helped to serve food to at table (usually followed by to): Help her to salad. 1
- verb with object helped to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store. 1
- verb without object helped to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps. 1
- noun helped the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor. 1
- noun helped a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency. 1
- noun helped a hired helper; employee. 1
- noun helped a body of such helpers. 1
- noun helped a domestic servant or a farm laborer. 1
- noun helped means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now. 1
- noun helped Older Use. helping (def 2). 1
- noun helped Simple past tense and past participle of help. 1
- idioms helped 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 helped 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 helped 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
- noun helped Help but, in sentences like She's so clever you can't help but admire her, has been condemned by some as the ungrammatical version of cannot help admiring her, but the idiom is common in all kinds of speech and writing and can only be characterized as standard. 1