offer help
Propose lending aid
To offer help is to make assistance available to someone, typically before being asked.
The phrase suggests initiative and goodwill—you see someone struggling and step forward: Can I offer some help with those bags?
It differs from simply helping, which implies action already taken; offering help leaves acceptance to the other person.
He offered to help with the move, but she said she had it covered.
- assistTo give support
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- lend a handOffer assistance to someone
- volunteerUnpaid willing participant
- aidSupport given freely
kindness · reach out · be there for · generosity · pitch in · chip in · rescue · comfort · moral support · caring · extend · gesture · good deed · neighbor · charity · give back · service · compassion
- social actionsinteract, communicate, connect, socialize, engage
- asking for helplend a hand, SOS, mayday, do me a favor
offer helpturn away
Deny someone access
rebuff · say no · spurn · turn a blind eye · turn down
offer helpabandon
Leave behind permanently
walk away · leave in the lurch · wash one's hands · desert · forsake
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