succouring

Verb

succour (third-person singular simple present succours, present participle succouring, simple past and past participle succoured)

1. (transitive) 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 succoura. 1530, John Skelton, “A Little Boke of Philip Sparow”, in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; […] In Twenty-one Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson [et...

   Synonyms:

   abet, aid, assist, befriend, bestead, minister, come to someone's aid, give someone a hand, grip, help

   Antonyms:

   ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, dere, excruciate, hurt, irritate, pang

2. (transitive) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
   • Shortlie after, Algar Earle of Cheſter, being conuicted of treaſon againſt the king, fled to Gruffyth king or prince of VVales, who gathered his power to reuenge the often wrongs, which he had receiued at the Engliſhmens hands, who euer ſuccoured his enimies againſt him.1584, “Gruffyth the Sonne of Lhewelyn ap Sitsylht and Angharat”, in H. Lhoyd [i.e., Humphrey Llwyd], transl., edited by David Powel, The Historie of Cambria, now Called VVales: A Part of the Most...
3. (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) 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, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC, pages 176–177

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