0 help given to someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need: --
Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged.
1 to help someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need: --
Conceding defeat would give succour to our opponents.
Of course, a ship that is doing that is either succouring the enemy or carrying arms and ammunition against the lives of your own people.
Such assistance must, however, be subject to the primary tasks of saving life, succouring the homeless and removing the dead.
The first £25,000 to £50,000 to succour the fledgling entrepreneur is where there is a huge gap.
These wretched creatures who came here came because they were in desperate need of succour and refuge.
Blessed also are we in having thee as our succour: for day and night thou didst intercede for us, and the sceptres of kings are strengthened by thy supplications.
The long view to the south and west is however a pervasive, if dislocated, stage set to give succour to the almost irresistible mythic qualities of the region.
The old religions would cease to be capable of providing the psychological succour they were supposed to provide.
