Word of the Day for Wednesday March 22, 2006
succor
\SUH-kuhr\, noun:
1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and
delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
2. The person or thing that brings relief.
transitive verb:
1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to
assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.
In Asakusa, a crowd sought succor around an old and lovely Buddhist
temple, dedicated to Kannon, goddess of mercy.
-- Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese
Empire
