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self-help

noun

Etymology

From self- + help.

  1. derived from *ḱelb-✻
  2. inherited from *helpaną✻ — “to help”
  3. inherited from *helpan✻
  4. inherited from helpan — “to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure”
  5. inherited from helpen
  6. formed as self-help — “self- + help”

Definitions

  1. The practice of bettering oneself without relying on the assistance of others.

    • a self-help book
    • Amanda Straw estimates that she has read nearly 200 self-help books.

  2. An act of redressing or preventing a wrong by one's own actions rather than through legal…

    An act of redressing or preventing a wrong by one's own actions rather than through legal proceedings.

    • self-help repossession

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Derived

self-helpy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-help. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA