Synonyms Dictionary
9. take, appropriate, expropriate, arrogate, impress, annex, commandeer, dispossess, usurp, take possession of, lay hold of, take for oneself, possess oneself of, Sl. boost, Sl. walk off or away with; steal, pirate, plagiarize, Euph. borrow, Sl. lift, Sl. pinch; make use of, make free with, take liberties with.
10. so help me (used as a mild oath) on my honor, on my word, on my word of honor, I swear, I swear to God, Inf. swear to God.
-n. 11. aid, assistance, use, utility, avail, service, subvention, benefit, facilitation, helping hand, lift, boost; relief, succor, championship, protection, friendship; encouragement, abetment, abetting, collaboration, cooperation; support, patronage, backing, promotion, advocacy, countenance, care, upholding, sustenance, favor, blessing, grace, sponsorship, auspices, good offices, kind regard; fosterage, furtherance, advancement, advance, advantage, welfare; maintenance, ministry, ministration, restoration; boon, good deed, kind deed, good turn; gift, subsidy, contribution, donation; kindness, beneficence, benevolence, benefaction, humanitarianism, altruism, philanthropy, charity, almsgiving.
12. aid, aider, assistant, attendant. See helper (defs. 1-3).
13. supporter, advocate, adviser, patron, sympathizer, patronizer, backer, champion, endorser, upholder, sanctioner, approver; follower, partisan, adherent, disciple; agent, promoter, furtherer, advancer, favorer; subsidizer, underwriter, maintainer, sustainer, benefactor, benefactress, benefiter, Inf. fairy godmother, friend in deed; comforter, succorer, good Samaritan, ministering angel, friend in need.
14. employee, hand, man, girl, apprentice, hired helper or hand, hireling, help, helping hand, worker, workman, workhand, workingman, laborer, wage worker, day laborer, (esp. in Mexico) peon, Hist, retainer; personnel, staff, force, work force, crew, Inf. gang, Inf. team.
15. servant, domestic, domestic servant, factotum, maid, maidservant, handmaid or handmaiden, butler, valet, (in the British army) batman; menial, inferior, underling, Sl. stooge; tenant farmer, farm laborer, migrant, migratory worker.
16. remedy, cure, relief, corrective, correction, restorative, preventive, preventer, prevention; way, means, resource, step, shift, resort, measure, working proposition; artifice, device, contrivance, expedient, stopgap, makeshift, subterfuge. helper, n. 1. aid or aide, assistant, attendant, subsidiary, adjutant, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress or coadjutrix, adjunct, adjuvant, adjutator, Obs. ad-jutor; acolyte, deputy, auxiliary, ancilla, second, man Friday, gal Friday, henchman, right hand, right-hand man, Sl. gopher.
2. partner, comrade, ally, colleague, associate, con-sociate, yokefellow or yokemate, companion, helpmate, helpmeet, Obs. helpfellow, co-worker, co-aid, copartner; consort, confrere, sidekick, crony, friend, Inf. buddy, Chiefly Brit. mate.
3. cooperator, collaborator, contributor, participator, participant; confederate, conniver, conspirer, conspirator, fellow conspirator, abettor, accomplice, accessory, or Chiefly Law. accessary, Law. principal, Law. accessory before or after the fact, Law. particeps criminis, partner in crime, Sl. gun moll or moll.
4. worker, workingman, laborer, hand, help, helping hand, apprentice; servant, maid, handmaid or handmaiden, maidservant, butler, valet, (in the British army) batman; menial, inferior, lesser, underling.
More Synonyms ...