English

Alternative forms

• succour

Noun

succor ‎(uncountable)

1. (archaic or obsolete) Aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

     Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

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Verb

succor ‎(third-person singular simple present succors, present participle succoring, simple past and past participle succored)

1. (transitive) To give such assistance.

Synonyms

• (to give assistance): help, aid, assist, support, sustain, relieve

Antonyms

• (to give assistance): hurt, damage

Derived terms

• succorer

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Anagrams

• crocus, occurs