To furnish aid to; contribute strength or means to; assist in doing, accomplishing, or attaining anything; assist; aid: as, to help a man in his work; to help one out of difficulties. See to help to, below.To bring succor or relief to; relieve; rescue.To mitigate, as pain or disease; heal, relieve, or comfort, as a person in pain or distress.To mend; repair.To change for the better; remedy: as, he cannot help his deformity.To prevent; avoid; forbear; keep or refrain from: with can or cannot.To increase; aggravate.To aid in going, removing, getting, etc.: with ellipsis of to go, to get, etc.: as, help me in (that is, help me to go in); help me off my horse.To give out in portions.To lend aid; be of use; avail.To serve or distribute food, as at table.n. Assistance; aid given toward doing, accomplishing, or attaining anything, as labor, escape from danger or difficulty, discharge of obligations, etc.n. Remedy; relief; succor; means of deliverance: as, failure is inevitable, there is no help for it.n. A source of aid, relief, or succor; a helper.n. Hence An assistant; a hired laborer or servant; especially, a domestic or household servant; collectively, servants or assistants; the supply of workers.