succouring
present participle ofsuccour
succour
verb[T]
UKliterary(USsuccor)uk/ˈsʌk.ər/us/ˈsʌk.ɚ/tohelpsomeone,especiallysomeone who issufferingor in need:
to succour thepoor,helpthehelpless,supporttheweak
Students should beencouraged,supportedand succoured.
Synonym
support(ENCOURAGE)
Helping and co-operating
- a good/bad turnidiom
- abet
- accommodative
- aid
- any port in a stormidiom
- assist
- assistance
- bridge
- carry
- facilitation
- givesomeonea leg upidiom
- give/lendsomeonea helping handidiom
- go a long way toward(s) doingsomethingidiom
- run errandsidiom
- share a platformidiom
- solid
- sponsor
- start(something)off
- succour
- supportively
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Treating someone well
Examplesofsuccouring
succouring
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Such assistance must, however, be subject to the primary tasks of saving life,succouringthe homeless and removing the dead.
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Of course, a ship that is doing that is eithersuccouringthe enemy or carrying arms and ammunition against the lives of your own people.
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Is there any means ofsuccouringthe wounded, some of whom may be guiltless?
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They cannot leave money aside to invest in promoting andsuccouringwildlife.
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Is not the essence of the matter that this is a cut in public expenditure which should besuccouringthe poor?
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The only vessels that were at all suitable forsuccouringor searching for aircraft that might have fallen into the sea are the flotilla leader and destroyers.
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From 1452 to 1789 the law had imposed on the "seigneurs de haute justice" the duty ofsuccouringchildren found deserted on their territories.
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