succour

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
2. (uncountable) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
3. (uncountable) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.

Verb

1. (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
2. (transitive) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
3. (transitive) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.

Opposite of

alleviate, analgesize, comfort, dave, ease, heal, relieve, soothe, benumb, numb

Synonyms

succor

help

aid

relief

assist

assistance

rescue

ministration

succor

avail

relieve

support

subserve

deliver

help out

helping

lift

do good

hand

✋

hospitalization

patronage

profit

promote

protection

pull through

remedy

salvation

save

serve

succorer

be of use

do good to

Help

helping hand

side with

delivering from sin

nursing

save one’s life

witness for

benefact

succourer

leg up

be of assistance

aidance

aid money

ancilla

assistant

attention

auxiliary

backing

Translations

secourir

aide

socorro

Hilfe

socorrer

Beistand

secours

αρωγή

assistenza

βοήθεια

aiutante

assistant

assistance

ajuda

aiuto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsʌkə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: socour

Cognate with French: secours

Inherited from Middle English: socouren

Cognate with French: secourir

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English socour, interpreted as the singular form of socours (“help; encouragement; remedy; protection; helper, protector”), which is from Anglo-Norman socurs, sucurs and Old French secors, secours (modern French secours), from Medieval Latin succursus (participle), from Latin succurrēre (“to run to the help of”), from Latin sub- (“from below”) + Latin currere (“run”).
The verb is derived from Middle English socouren (“to help”), from Anglo-Norman socure (compare modern French secourir), also from Latin succurrēre.