Denying vs. Help — What's the Difference?

To declare untrue; assert to be false

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering them one's services or resources

To refuse to believe; reject

Serve someone with (food or drink)

To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow

Cannot or could not avoid

To decline to grant or allow; refuse

The action of helping someone to do something

To give a refusal to; turn down or away

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance

To restrain (oneself) especially from indulgence in pleasures.

To give assistance to (someone); make it easier for (someone) to do something; aid

Present participle of deny

To give material or financial aid to

The act of one who denies something; a denial.

To wait on, as in a store or restaurant

To contribute to the effectiveness or improvement of (something); improve or advance

To ease the pain or discomfort of; relieve

To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot

To be of service; give assistance

To be of use or provide relief

The action of helping; assistance

One that helps

(Archaic) A person employed to help, especially a farm worker or domestic servant.

Such employees considered as a group. Often used with the.

(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.

Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.

One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.

(uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

(transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.

(transitive) To contribute in some way to.

(intransitive) To provide assistance.

(transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.

A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; - the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."

To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.

To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; - sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.

To change for the better; to remedy.

To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?

To forbear; to avoid.

To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.

Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;

A resource;

A means of serving;

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;

Give help or assistance; be of service;

Be of use;

Improve the condition of;

Abstain from doing; always used with a negative;

Contribute to the furtherance of;

Improve; change for the better;

Help to some food; help with food or drink;

Take or use;