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helping out

helping out is the present participle and gerund of help out.

Meaning of help out

Verb

help out (third-person singular simple present helps out, present participle helping out, simple past and past participle helped out)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To provide assistance.
    • When we moved house, the children helped out by packing their toys.

Questions about helping out

What is helping out the present participle and gerund of?
Helping out is the present participle and gerund of help out.

Words near helping out in the dictionary

  1. helping a lame dog over a stile
  2. helping along
  3. helping hand
  4. helping hands
  5. helping oneself
  6. helping out
  7. helping profession
  8. helping professions
  9. helping verb
  10. helping verbs
  11. helpingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: helping out (page history and authors); help out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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