Succor

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt The person or thing that brings relief.

II. Succor ·vt Aid; help; assistance; ·esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.

III. Succor ·vt 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.