"cannot help" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cannot help",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "could not help",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cannot<cannot,-,could not,-> help"
      },
      "expansion": "cannot help (third-person singular simple present cannot help, no present participle, simple past could not help, no past participle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "can't help"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Edward Verrall Lucas, chapter 2, in Highways and Byways in Sussex",
          "text": "even their arch-enemy the gamekeeper is beginning reluctantly, but gradually, to acquiesce in the general belief of their innocence and utility, I cannot help indulging the hope that this bird will eventually meet with that general encouragement and protection to which its eminent services so richly entitle it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, The Revised Reports",
          "text": "It may be that the jury in this case have misapplied the rule laid down by this Court, but not in favour of the defendants. I cannot help thinking they might well have held the watercourse to be the true boundary line between the two properties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of can't help."
      ],
      "id": "en-cannot_help-en-verb-g~LZTjA6",
      "links": [
        [
          "can't help",
          "can't help#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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        "no-past-participle",
        "no-present-participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cannot help"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cannot help",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "could not help",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cannot<cannot,-,could not,-> help"
      },
      "expansion": "cannot help (third-person singular simple present cannot help, no present participle, simple past could not help, no past participle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "can't help"
        }
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Edward Verrall Lucas, chapter 2, in Highways and Byways in Sussex",
          "text": "even their arch-enemy the gamekeeper is beginning reluctantly, but gradually, to acquiesce in the general belief of their innocence and utility, I cannot help indulging the hope that this bird will eventually meet with that general encouragement and protection to which its eminent services so richly entitle it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, The Revised Reports",
          "text": "It may be that the jury in this case have misapplied the rule laid down by this Court, but not in favour of the defendants. I cannot help thinking they might well have held the watercourse to be the true boundary line between the two properties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of can't help."
      ],
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        [
          "can't help",
          "can't help#English"
        ]
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        "no-present-participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cannot help"
}