helps
Provides a boost
Helps is the third-person singular of help, meaning to assist or make something easier.
She helps her neighbor with groceries.
As a noun, helps refers to instances of assistance or, in older usage, household servants: We had three helps in the kitchen.
aid
Support given freely
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- assistTo give support
- facilitateMake something easier
enable · boost · encourage · foster · advance · contribute · serve · back · uphold · reinforce
advantage
Favorable position or circumstance
empower · strengthen · enrich · better · prosper · heal · restore · relieve · comfort · soothe
- encouragementencourage, encouraging, praises, hang in there, supports
- verb formsam, are, is, was, were
- spiritual giftsgift of tongues, gift of healing, speaking in tongues, tongues, glossolalia
- taking actionacts, moves, responds, take action, go for it
- hedginghedging, hedge, hedges, hedge bet, qualifier
- pros and conspros, cons, advantage, disadvantage, pluses
benefit vs. harm
helpshurts
Causes physical distress
harms · damages · injures · detriments · disadvantages
- help yourselfTake what you want
- help outProvide needed support
- help meRequest for aid
- helping handSupport given to another
- can't helpLacking ability to refrain
- get helpSecure support from others
help, helpful, helper, helping, helpless, helped, unhelpful, helpers, helpfulness