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behelp en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /bɪˈhɛlp/

Etymology

From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To help (with); give aid or assistance to.
   • It is said of one of them that at an audience with the Queen of England he was asked whether he was married and, his knowledge of the English language being defective, replied: "No, Your Majesty, behelp me so! 1933, Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz, Admiral von Hipper:
   • 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. 1713, The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck
   • Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia. 1961, John Reeves, A beach of strangers: an excursion:

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