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 orrelief given to one indistress ;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
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Examples
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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.
Top 25 Psychiatric Medicines List Released The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 22, 2007