cannot help

Alternative form of can't help.

Verb

  1. Alternative form of can't help.
    • He never greatly cared for the society of what are called good people. If any of these were scandalised (and offences were sure to arise), he could not help it. - 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late...
    • "Well, my love, that is all very true," replied Louisa, colouring with the consciousness of being a great monopolist; "but I cannot help fearing more pain will arise to you eventually than the pleasure is worth;[…]" -...
    • Yarmouth […] looked rather spongey and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography-book...

Forms

cannot help could not help