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  • verb Present participle of succor.

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Examples

  • Make loans and credit facilities readily available to the nation's small and medium size businesses and manufacturers, which desperately need them while the likes of Goldman Sachs and the major banks are succoring off of US Government guarantees and TARP monies but not lending to these smaller companies.

    Leo Hindery, Jr.: It's All About Jobs! 2010

  • The necessity for succoring Knoxville was urgent, however, so we speedily refitted as thoroughly as was possible with the limited means at hand.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • It was one matter entirely for beasts to fight and kill each other, following the dictates of an ecology (not that she was prevented from succoring the weaker when she could), but for one species, stronger, more flexible, basically more dangerous because of its versatility, to attack a stupid animal for the sporting pleasure was unspeakably savage.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • Make loans and credit facilities readily available to the nation's small and medium size businesses and manufacturers, which desperately need them while the likes of Goldman Sachs and the major banks are succoring off of US Government guarantees and TARP monies but not lending to these smaller companies.

    It's All About Jobs! 2010

  • Make loans and credit facilities readily available to the nation's small and medium size businesses and manufacturers, which desperately need them while the likes of Goldman Sachs and the major banks are succoring off of US Government guarantees and TARP monies but not lending to these smaller companies.

    Leo Hindery, Jr.: It's All About Jobs! 2009

  • They can simply succeed at breaking, or succoring, hearts by indicating ultimate human realities.

    ‘Notes on Sontag’ - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • They were not an agency for the succoring of the envious.

    The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008

  • And I hope that her mother will be able to take time from succoring the imminently hurricane stricken and stoking the campaign fires to reassure her teenage daughter that it's quite OK to have a belly.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Becca 2008

  • Then the 4th Estate should stop succoring the 4th Reich.

    Think Progress » ABC’s Ross: Surveillance of Journalists ‘Makes Me Feel…As If We Are Drug Dealers or Terrorists’ 2006

  • Done properly, this will allow believers to take the positive moral creeds and ethical codes of the great religions and apply them without succoring the fundamentalist absolutism that can cause such harm.

    Maia Szalavitz: Science Education-- not Dawkins'-style attack-- Is the Cure for Fundamentalism 2008

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