Something that provides relief: Reverend Jones has often said that prayer is often the succor for a troubled soul.

To go to the assistance of something or someone: Bill and his boys group will succor the homeless and take warm blankets to the shelter this evening.

1. A lollipop or sweet candy often on a stick: Each of the children was given a sucker at the end of the birthday party.
2. A person who is easily fooled or deceived or who is irresistibly attracted to something: There is a saying that there is a sucker born every minute.

Bernhard is a sucker for red sports cars and goes to the New Sports Car Shows whenever he can.

3. A fresh water fish, the mouth of which is soft and fleshy: At the aquarium, Joan and the students in her class watched the sucker feed at the bottom of the tank.
4. New shoots or stems that grow from the roots or the lower part of a plant: The sucker on the rosebush needs to be trimmed so the new blooms will flourish.