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Definition of Help oneself
1. Verb. Abstain from doing; always used with a negative. "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"
Definition of Help oneself
1. Verb. (reflexive) To take something freely; to serve oneself without restraint. ¹
2. Verb. (&lit help) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Help Oneself
Literary usage of Help oneself
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Law Reports (annotated): Being Reports of Important Decisions by W. R. P. Parker (1903)
"... "that is supposing that a work does not exist yet, because I believe one has
the right to help oneself from a dictionary already made . . . one can help ..."
2. German Verbs: Primitives and Their Compounds by Benno Kirschbaum (1906)
"... to aspire, to exact, to expect, ask. Zulangen (sep., tr., intr.), to help
oneself, to stretch out one's hand, to seize, to fall, to help oneself. ..."
3. Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the by Charles John Smith (1871)
"I crossed the mountains safe with the aid of a chart and a staff." To aid is to
help by co-operation, and, iu some instances, to enable to help oneself. ..."
4. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"vr (with de) make use (of) ; help oneself or one another; exert oneself. — en
s'aidant de, with the aid of, with the employment of, aide-souffleur, m. ..."
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