Succor
['sʌkə] or ['sʌkɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.
(v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
(v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.
Typed by Cedric
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Aid, assist, help, relieve.[2]. Cherish, foster, encourage, nurse.
n. Relief, aid, assistance, help, support, helping hand.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aid, support, console, alleviate, befriend, comfort, help, assist, relieve
ANT:Distress, oppress, maltreat, injure, thwart, burden, persecute, hurt
Checker: Sondra
Examples
- Can you leave them, gentlemen, without at least rendering them the passive succor which remaining here a few days longer might insure them? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Some implored the gods to succor them, and some believed that this night was the last, the eternal night which should engulf the universe! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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