To abstain from doing; always used with a negative.
1When one gets into a big flock, one has to dance, one can't help oneself.
2When one is at a loss what to say or write, well-onetries to help oneself with music.
3Sometimes one cannot help oneself.
4But one can't help oneself.
5Altogether it was a difficult thing to ascertain or to move the will of the gods, and one must help oneself as best one could.
6One can help others most, I really believe, by helping oneself.
7His political study Behalf (1999) examined the relationship between helping others and helping oneself.
8"You don't look to me much good for that job," said the Hare, "but in time of need one must help oneself as one can."
Translations for help oneself