If you succour someone who is suffering or in difficulties, you help them. Helicopters fly in appalling weather to succour shipwrecked mariners. = assist, aid. help and sympathy that is given to someone. succor to give help and sympathy someone
suc·cour succours succouring succoured in AM, use succor1. Succour is help given to people who are suffering or in difficulties. a commitment to give succour to populations involved in the conflict. = assistance
To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city