Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Assistance in time of distress; relief.
  • noun One that affords assistance or relief.
  • transitive verb To give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; assist and deliver from suffering.
  • noun Aid; help; assistance.
  • noun The person or thing that brings relief; especially, troops serving as an aid or assistance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
  • noun The person or thing that brings relief.
  • transitive verb 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
  • verb transitive to give such assistance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb help in a difficult situation
  • noun assistance in time of difficulty

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English sucur, back-formation from sucurs (taken as pl.), from Old French secors, from Medieval Latin succursus, from past participle of Latin succurrere, to run to the aid of : sub-, sub- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English sucuren, from Old French sucurre, sucurir ("to rescue, remedy"), from Latin succurrō ("go beneath, run for cover, run for help", v), from sub- + currō ("run", v). More at sub-, current.

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Examples

  • One handy way of looking at the two lists is that many of the people on the former influenced millions of Americans to seek succor from the pharmaceuticals on the latter.

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  • All that said, with the Cold War over and the conservative movement tending to take most of its emotional succor from a blend of militarism and homophobia these days, I hope that modern liberals and libertarians can find ways to cooperate on some of these economic issues where our interests may overlap.

    Matthew Yglesias » Small-Government Egalitarianism 2009

  • Restructuring the existing convertible bonds allows the Educomp to push out redemption date and offer near-term succor to its weakening balance sheet.

    Educomp to Recast Foreign Convertible Bonds Sneha Shah of Mint 2011

  • Restructuring the existing convertible bonds allows the Educomp to push out redemption date and offer near-term succor to its weakening balance sheet.

    Educomp to Recast Foreign Convertible Bonds Sneha Shah of Mint 2011

  • Restructuring the existing convertible bonds allows the Educomp to push out redemption date and offer near-term succor to its weakening balance sheet.

    Educomp to Recast Foreign Convertible Bonds Sneha Shah of Mint 2011

  • Both the Mesoamerican and Christian pantheon of gods and saints, mirrors of contemporary anxieties, were created to appeal for divine succor from a vast assortment of afflictions.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • The point is that al-Qaeda does not gain succor just from what Cullison calls "Arab resentment against the United States"; it also profits from the West's agonizing over the legally — not to say morally — dubious methods used to combat international terrorism, some of which clearly have a certain popular appeal, particularly in the United States.

    Letters to the Editor 2004

  • The point is that al-Qaeda does not gain succor just from what Cullison calls "Arab resentment against the United States"; it also profits from the West's agonizing over the legally — not to say morally — dubious methods used to combat international terrorism, some of which clearly have a certain popular appeal, particularly in the United States.

    Letters to the Editor 2004

  • There must be action and succor from the well-off parts of the world for the poorer sections, just as one part of our country would rally to the aid of another section in time of national disaster, such as, say, some great flood or an earthquake.

    The Puzzling Years Ahead 1945

  • It was evident in July that the brig would never be freed from the ice, and in this critical situation, Kane, taking five men in a whaleboat, attempted to reach Beechy Island, several hundred miles to the southwest, whence he expected to obtain succor from the English searching squadron.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

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    May 22, 2007