(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.
(v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
(v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three independent dimensions of personality are defined and related to heritable variation in patterns of response to specific types of environmental stimuli: 'novelty seeking' is due to a heritable tendency toward frequent exploratory activity and intense excitement in response to novel stimuli; 'harm avoidance' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to aversive stimuli and to learn to avoid punishment, novelty, and non-reward passively; and 'reward dependence' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to reward and succorance and to learn to maintain rewarded behavior.
(2) Requests reflecting needs for intrapsychic therapy, clarification, and control of feelings were considered very important by approximately two thirds of the patients; needs for institutionalized contact, advice, and community triage by one half; and other requests for medication, reality contact, succorance, ventilation, confession, social intervention, administrative requests by a minority (one fourth to one third).
(3) An onslaught of biological, social, and psychological stresses force acknowledgement of previously denied needs for succor, plunging them into battle with their wife-surrogate mother.
(4) assistance, succorance, nurturance, stress alleviation, and support in a stressful urban environment in which they encounter barriers of language, transportation, eligibility requirements, and self-perceptions of inferior ethnic identify.
(5) Addicted criminals had stronger succorance, heterosexuality, and aggression needs and less abasement and endurance needs than nonaddicted offenders.
(6) Post boc analyses for treatment x high-low score classification on the Edwards variables indicated that accurately informed subjects high in succorance or exhibition demonstrated significantly greater heart-rate reduction than subjects given other treatment.
(7) The RTC has performed very well, giving aid and succor to rape victims.
(8) The treatment effect was not significant, but personality variables of exhibition, succorance, deference, and aggression were reliable predictors of success in biofeedback training.
(9) Nikki Haley has announced that she wants the legislature to take down this flag, and now it will try to do that, meandering through politicking and procedure, giving the most needful of all Americans – especially those running for president as Republicans, and who once happily took the money of the racists who support flying said flag – the succor of not having to answer the question, “Would you take down the Confederate flag if you were the Governor of South Carolina?” with anything more than, “Well, I’m pleased to say I don’t have to answer that, and that issue is in the hands of the folks from South Carolina.” You could watch the tweets of relief from candidates roll in in real time.
(10) The results also suggested that high affinity states of platelet alpha 2-adrenergic receptors (low Kd) correlate with traits suggestive of stability, i.e., Autonomy, Dominance, Nurturance, Order, Succorance, and General Sensation Seeking Scale of Zuckerman, while low affinity states (high Kd) of platelet alpha 2-receptors correlate with psychopathological traits of Dependence, Exhibitionism, and Paranoia.
(11) Sylvia Muchinsky, Summer’s New York-based aunt, worried that US citizens who have sought succor in Aden will soon be in the crosshairs as the battle spreads to the port.
(12) The birth of a sibling before this age would give rise to affiliation and succorance needs, which we propose to consider together under the name of "symbiotic dependence."
(13) Inconsistent with this interpretation was the finding that students were actually lower in dominance and higher in succorance after training.
(14) The decrease in dominance may be related to the program's special emphasis on counseling; the high succorance at the end of the program may have resulted from the transitional state associated with leaving the program.
(15) Comparisons between the responses to the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule given by 32 pairs of firstborns, 17-19 years old, revealed that firstborns having siblings less than 3 years younger show greater affiliation and succorance needs than firstborns not having close siblings.
(16) An association was found between normal status and high self scores on nurturance, affiliation, and endurance, and between pathological status and succorance.
(17) This paper reports the results of a field study on five proximal social psychological variables derived from Farber's theory of suicide: Hope in the Future Time Perspective; Demands for Interpersonal Giving; the Availability of Succorance; Demands for the Exercising of Competence; and the degree of Toleration of Suicide.
(18) For men, inventory scores were positively associated with the traits of Change and Endurance and negatively correlated with Abasement, Order and Succorance.
(19) Instead of receiving understanding, compassion and succor from a signatory to the refugee convention, he was sent to a hell-hole as a deterrent against the trip he had already made.
(20) Cluster analyses revealed four distinct groups of subjects (anxious deniers, healthy separators, peaceful detachers, and succorance seekers), each with its own coherent set of scores on the SITA and instruments measuring family relations and positive and negative psychological adjustment.
Sustain
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
(v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.
(v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.
(v. t.) To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
(v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.
(v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
(v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
(v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.
(n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(3) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(4) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(5) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(6) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(7) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(8) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(9) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(10) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(11) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
(12) The conversion of orotate to UMP, catalyzed by the enzymes of complex II, was increased at 3 days (+42%), a rise sustained to 14 days.
(13) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
(14) Our studies have shown that infarcted dogs which exhibit inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia had late potentials and could be distinguished from those with no arrhythmias by the following QRS characteristics.
(15) These agents have been well-tolerated and generally produce a high incidence of sustained improvements in neutrophil counts and marrow morphology, although hemoglobin and platelet counts have generally not been altered.
(16) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(17) The weakness was treated by intensive physical rehabilitation with complete and sustained recovery in all cases.
(18) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(19) In the facial fractures, a large number of these patients also sustain a head injury.
(20) Chromatographic analysis of this radioactivity reveals that the octadecapeptide gives rise to much higher tissue levels of intact peptide and we believe that this acts as a depot and gives rise to the sustained blood concentrations and prolonged biological effects observed with this peptide.