0 present participle of succour --
1 to help someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need: --
From 1452 to 1789 the law had imposed on the "seigneurs de haute justice" the duty of succouring children found deserted on their territories.
The only vessels that were at all suitable for succouring or searching for aircraft that might have fallen into the sea are the flotilla leader and destroyers.
Is not the essence of the matter that this is a cut in public expenditure which should be succouring the poor?
They cannot leave money aside to invest in promoting and succouring wildlife.
Is there any means of succouring the wounded, some of whom may be guiltless?
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.
