[help] 
| 1. | 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: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages. |
| 2. | to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling! |
| 3. | to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate: The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace. |
| 4. | to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career. |
| 5. | to refrain from; avoid (usually prec. by can or cannot): He can't help doing it. |
| 6. | to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior. |
| 7. | to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress. |
| 8. | to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache. |
| 9. | to serve food to at table (usually fol. by to): Help her to salad. |
| 10. | to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store. |
| 11. | to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps. |
| 12. | the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor. |
| 13. | a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency. |
| 14. | a hired helper; employee. |
| 15. | a body of such helpers. |
| 16. | a domestic servant or a farm laborer. |
| 17. | means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now. |
| 18. | Older Use. helping (def. 2). |
| 19. | (used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention.) |
| 20. | help out, to assist in an effort; be of aid to: Her relatives helped out when she became ill. |
| 21. | cannot or can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to: Still, you can't help but admire her. |
| 22. | help oneself to,
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| 23. | so help me, (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor: That's exactly what happened, so help me. |
so help me
Also, so help me God. I swear that what I am saying is true, as in So help me, I haven't enough cash to pay for the tickets, or I wasn't there, so help me God. This idiom became a formula for swearing a formal oath and is still so used in courts of law for swearing in a witness (I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God). It was first recorded in 1508 as "So help me, our Lord."