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View synonyms for help out

help out

verb

  1. to assist or aid (someone), esp by sharing the burden
  2. to share the burden or cost of something with (another person)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Give additional assistance, as in I offered to help out with the holiday rush at the store . [Early 1600s]
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Example Sentences

The lack of a cannon is a particular problem, as the F-35 is being counted on to help out infantrymen under fire.

Today, in contrast, if Grandma Maude starts one in Maine, Aunty Carol can directly help out from California.

If the taste of chlorine haunts you, filters might help out.

Daniel Schachner, the actor playing the referee for Puppy Bowl X, waits on standby to help out on the field.

“I wanted to help out in any way I could,” he says, especially in refugee camps and hospitals.

Mr. Norcross told what we had seen, and how we had come to be where we were able to see it, but that didn't help out much, either.

"Nothing that would help out," and after he had talked a little while longer our only millionaire went down-stairs again.

He will appeal to me to help out within six months, you'll see!

"A good idea, and I'll do everything I can to help out," laughed the leader.

He just entered into a little private deal to help out Hands McCaffery.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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