<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist.</li><li>to save; rescue; succor.</li><li>to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate.</li><li>to be useful or profitable to.</li><li>to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot).</li><li>to relieve or break the uniformity of.</li><li>to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress.</li><li>to remedy, stop, or prevent.</li><li>to serve food to at table (usually followed by to).</li><li>to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to give aid; be of service or advantage.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.</li><li>a person or thing that helps.</li><li>a hired helper; employee.</li><li>a body of such helpers.</li><li>a domestic servant or a farm laborer.</li><li>means of remedying, stopping, or preventing.</li><li>helping (Older Use).</li></ul><p><strong>Interjection</strong></p><ul><li>(used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to assist in an effort; be of aid to.</li></ul>