succour UK /ˈsʌkə/US /ˈsʌkɚ/noun 3verb 3forms 6 noun3 •Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.His hand, that oft the enemy did lame, / He reach't to those whose succors were dismayde; [...] — 1583 •Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.Then Dioclesian, / Calling aloud for Succour to the Guard, / Soon gave 'em the Alarm, and made 'em fly / With all the Wings of Speed, to rescue 'em; [...] — 1690 •Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.The gilleflower also, the skilful doe knowe, / doe looke to be couered, in frost and in snowe. / The knot, and the border, and rosemarie gaie, / do craue the like succour for dieng awaie. — 1878 verb3 •To give aid, assistance, or help.[M]y maystres / Of whome I thinke / With pen and ynke / For to compyle / Some goodly stile / For thys moste goodly floure / The blossom of fresh colour / So Jupiter me succour — 1530 •To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.[A] shout of joy burst from the despairing remnant of Major Courtland's troops, and a reinforcement of British rushed through the narrow defile to succour their exhausted comrades. — 1824 •To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.By this River side in the medovv, there vvere Cotes and Folds for Sheep, […] [B]y these VVaters they might be housed, harboured, suckered, and nourished, […] — 1684 formssuccoured · succouredst · succouring · succoureth · succours · succourest
