aiding
Giving a hand
Aiding is helping or assisting, typically in accomplishing something: She was charged with aiding the escape.
The word appears most often in legal contexts, where aiding and abetting describes helping someone commit a crime.
Outside law, aiding sounds slightly formal—people are more likely to say helping.
Single portion given
- assistingGiving help to
- facilitatingMaking something simpler
- supportingBearing or sustaining
- guidingLeading toward destination
mentoring · coaching · tutoring · enabling · empowering · collaborating · contributing · advocating
Reserving for future use
- recoveringRegaining health or strength
- extricatingReleasing from entrapment
- evacuatingLeaving a dangerous area
- liberatingSetting free from constraint
retrieving · freeing · delivering · extracting · searching · locating · airlifting · resuscitating
Promoting health through food
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- fosteringPromoting development or growth
- sustainingMaintaining over time
- maintainingKeeping in condition
providing · supplying · feeding · caring · tending · upholding · preserving · protecting
Making less severe
- comfortingGiving emotional ease
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
- easingReducing strain or difficulty
- consolingGiving solace to another
reassuring · mitigating · palliating · ameliorating · healing · remedying · succoring · calming
helping
Single portion given
- assistingGiving help to
- facilitatingMaking something simpler
- supportingBearing or sustaining
guiding · mentoring · coaching · tutoring · enabling · empowering · collaborating · contributing · advocating · volunteering
saving
Reserving for future use
- recoveringRegaining health or strength
- extricatingReleasing from entrapment
- evacuatingLeaving a dangerous area
liberating · retrieving · freeing · delivering · extracting · searching · locating · airlifting · resuscitating · stabilizing
nourishing
Promoting health through food
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- fosteringPromoting development or growth
- sustainingMaintaining over time
maintaining · providing · supplying · feeding · caring · tending · upholding · preserving · protecting · safeguarding
alleviating
Making less severe
- comfortingGiving emotional ease
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
- easingReducing strain or difficulty
consoling · reassuring · mitigating · palliating · ameliorating · healing · remedying · succoring · calming · salving
- helping actionshelping, assisting, supporting, enabling, facilitating
- helpfulkind, useful, friendly, supportive, generous
- Blameblame, fault, culprit, accusation, guilt-tripping
- helping outhelping, assisting, pitching in, lending a hand, giving
- interactiontalking, sharing, helping, meeting, joining
- kind actshelping, assisting, donating, sharing, lending a hand
aidinghindering
Creating obstacles to progress
obstructing · impeding · blocking · thwarting · hampering
aidingharming
Causing injury or damage
hurting · damaging · injuring · sabotaging · undermining
- aiding and abettingHelping another commit crime
aid, assistance, aide, aided, aids, aides, unaided, aiders, aide-de-camp