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Suffice   /səfˈaɪs/   Listen
verb
Suffice  v. t.  
1.
To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. "Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter."
2.
To furnish; to supply adequately. (Obs.) "The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail."



Suffice  v. i.  (past & past part. sufficed; pres. part. sufficing)  To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. "To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?"






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"Suffice" Quotes from Famous Books



... journeys to Paris; jealous too of the work from which he seemed unable to tear himself, I at last made up my mind to take certain steps, of such a degrading nature that I cannot tell you about them. Suffice it to say that three days ago I ascertained that Gaston, when in Paris, visits a house in the Rue de la Ville l'Eveque, where he guards his mistress with jealous mystery, unexampled in Paris. The porter was surly, and I could get little out of him, but ...
— Letters of Two Brides • Honore de Balzac

... shut you up, it is morally certain that you would have been out of it, long before this. I don't think anything less than being chained hand and foot, and kept in an underground dungeon, would suffice ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty

... Mrs. Talcott did not reply. When she did speak, it was decisively as if, while recognising Karen's right to ask, Karen must recognise that the answer must suffice. "I'd be pretty badly off if I didn't love Mercedes. She's all I've got in ...
— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... 13th we still pushed on, leaving, as before, a cask of water to pick up on our return. I had been obliged to limit the horse to six gallons a day, but where he had been in the habit of drinking from 25 to 30, so small a quantity would not suffice. We had not gone many miles when he shewed symptoms of exhaustion, and rather tottered than walked. He took no pains to avoid anything, but threw Joseph into every bush he passed. The country still continued unchanged, sand and spinifex were the universal ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt

... considerable, as to be inconvenient to any party. It is believed, that half a dozen frigates, with as many tenders or xebecs, one half of which shall be in cruise, while the other half is at rest, will suffice. ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson


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