Crossword-Solution: SUCCOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Succor | 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. |
| Succor | v. t. | Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. |
| Succor | v. t. | The person or thing that brings relief. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SUCCOR | anagram | CROCUS, OCCURS |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SUCCOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| help in a difficult situation | 1 answer |
| Minister aid | 1 answer |
| Comfort amid hardship | 1 answer |
| Aid and comfort | 1 answer |
| Give some relief | 2 answers |
| CARRIED OUT WITHOUT AID OR ASSISTANCE | 10 answers |
| A HELPING HAND | 11 answers |
| BE of assistance | 12 answers |
| Helping hand | 14 answers |
| good offices | 57 answers |
| Assist | 58 answers |
| mellowness | 60 answers |
| Assistance | 61 answers |
| Advocacy | 65 answers |
| Aid | 77 answers |
| Relief | 86 answers |
| H-E-L-P! | 97 answers |
| Support | 104 answers |
| BACK ___! | 117 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUCCOR (5)
The response was unanimous and in thunder-tones—“NO!” “Will you succor and protect him as a brother-man—a resident of the old Bay State?” “YES!” shouted the whole mass, with an energy so startling, that the ruthless tyrants south of Mason and Dixon’s line might almost have heard the mighty burst of feeling, and recognized it as the pledge of an invincible determination, on the part of those who gave it, never to betray him that wanders, but to hide the outcast, and firmly to abide the consequences.
And now, O Oedipus, our peerless king, All we thy votaries beseech thee, find Some succor, whether by a voice from heaven Whispered, or haply known by human wit.
Had there not been those within the cruel city of Kadabra who needed succor far worse than the poor unfortunate dead and dying out there in the cold upon the bent and broken carcasses of a thousand fliers I could not have restrained my desire to hasten back and do battle with those horrid creatures that had been despatched to rend and devour them.
For this reason she conserved her energies and her voice until she could see that they had approached near enough to the camp to attract the succor she craved.
Always had he depended upon his own prowess and resourcefulness, nor had there ever been since the days of Kala any to answer an appeal for succor.
Quotes with SUCCOR (3)
So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. they err who would assert that invariable this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. An when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot le…
The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good farmers, to whom a stipulated sum is annually paid. To those who are able to help themselves a little or have friends from whom they derive some succor, inadequate however to their full maintenance, supplementary aids are given which enable them to live comfortably in their own houses or in the houses of their friends. Vagabonds without visible property or vocation, are placed…
... And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is s…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1981–2023).