Behelp
//bɪˈhɛlp// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To help (with); give aid or assistance to. archaic, transitive
"But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is."
Example
More examples"But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is."
Etymology
From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”).
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