to raise (someone) from a fall; to lift up / to prop; to support / to take in one's hands (what is offered, given); to help down with some load / to parry; to ward off / to help; to give a hand / to reduce (a negative emotion or situation); to relieve / to get better (after falling sick); to recover / Short for đỡ đẻ (“to deliver (a woman in childbirth)”).

(Northern Vietnam) temporarily (in the absence of a better method); as a makeshift

to help, to aid, to assist

midwife

to help out (with); to assist

(uncommon) to flatter; to dishonestly praise

to prop up; to hold up; to support / to endure; to sustain; to resist

to assist; to help; to support