meaning of succor
1. 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.
2. Aid; help; assistance; esp. , assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
3. The person or thing that brings relief.
4. assistance in time of difficulty; "the contributions provided some relief for the
">victims"
Related Words
succor | succorable | succored | succorer | succoring | succorless | succory |
