help me

Plea for assistance

Help me is a request for assistance, ranging from casual to urgent.

In everyday use, it softens requests: Help me move this couch, Can you help me understand this?

As a standalone exclamation, it signals distress or danger: Help me! I'm trapped!

The phrase often appears in prayer or desperation: God help me, So help me.

Related

assistTo give support
supportTo uphold or sustain
aidSupport given freely
lend a handOffer assistance to someone
rescueSave from harm

please · desperate · need · urgent · SOS · in distress · reach · guidance · stuck · lost · hand · lift · save · favor · crisis · trouble · emergency · lend

Categories

Alarm Expressionsmayday, SOS, oh no, watch out, look out
asking for helplend a hand, SOS, mayday
Phrasebookhello, goodbye, please, thank you, yes
pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
commandsgo, stop, wait, come, run

Opposites

direction of assistance

help mehelp yourself

Take what you want

help others · serve yourself

self-sufficiency vs. dependence

help meleave me alone

Demand for solitude

self-reliance · independence · go it alone · self-sufficiency

request vs. refusal

help mestay away

Remain at distance

back off · no thanks · I decline · mind your own business · leave it alone

Family

help, me, helps, helped, helping, helper, helpers, helpful, helpfully

Familiarity: Top 5,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G