0 past simple and past participle of succour
1 to help someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need:
That has been replaced by the philosophy that lame ducks should be revived, allowed to float, succoured and kept alive.
It is a very tender infant and it needs to be succoured with care and looked after with patience.
The wounded were quickly succoured and taken to hospital.
There are other civilian-soldiers in this war who are being succoured in the emergency hospitals.
There is the type which results from unforeseeable causes which must be somehow succoured.
Every national culture is unique and every one should be treasured and succoured.
That must be succoured and encouraged.
For instance, she went into places that other people had not gone into before; and she deliberately sought out and succoured those with whom no one had bothered before.
