| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make social acquaintance; support |
| Synonyms: | advise, aid, assist, back, benefit, buddy up, case out, come on to, cotton to, encourage, favor, get chummy with, get in with, help, hit it off, patronize, side with, stand by, sustain, take under one's wing, take up with, uphold, welcome |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | shield |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | protect |
| Synonyms: | bulwark, chamber, conceal, cover, cover all bases, cover up, defend, fend, give cover, give shelter, go to bat for, guard, harbor, haven, house, ride shotgun, roof, safeguard, screen, secure, shelter, shotgun, stonewall, take under one's wing, ward off |
| Antonyms: | endanger, lay bare, open, uncover |
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
adjutorious, adjuvant, ancillary, at one's beck, auxiliary, cataskeuastic, coadjuvant, favorable, friendly, helpful, ministrant, neighborly, obliging, propitious, subservient, subsidiary, succursal, well
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