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/sˈutəd/ /sˈutɪd/ Listen

verb

Suit v. t. (past & past part. suited; pres. part. suiting)

To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.

To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. "Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well." "Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee."

To dress; to clothe. (Obs.) "So went he suited to his watery tomb."

To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Suit v. i. To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; usually followed by with or to. "The place itself was suiting to his care." "Give me not an office That suits with me so ill."

Synonyms: To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match; answer.

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... face perhaps a trifle more like a mild sunset than ever, strolled to the first tee. He swung his driver with freedom and ease to make sure it was the one that best suited him, and then turned to Major Wardell, his chief rival. "Do you want to take any more?" he ...

— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele

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— A Study of Fairy Tales • Laura F. Kready

... twelve miles away, yet not all the warriors of Piqua are here ready to help us. But they will wait for us if we come to them, and then we shall be in stronger force to fight Clark. And Piqua is better suited to defense than Chillicothe. The enemy cannot come upon the town without receiving from ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler

... definite, went out over all the country, and promptly the figure and name of Curtis Jadwin loomed suddenly huge and formidable in the eye of the public. There was no wheat on the Chicago market. He, the great man, the "Napoleon of La Salle Street," had it all. He sold it or hoarded it, as suited his pleasure. He dictated the price to those men who must buy it of him to fill their contracts. His hand was upon the indicator of the wheat dial of the Board of Trade, and he moved it through as many or as few of the degrees of the circle as ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

... As many as ten thousand beads are known to have been wrought into a single war belt four inches wide. The regular alternation of white and purple rows was not always adopted, but birds and beasts and such other rustic fantasies as suited the owner's taste, were often interwoven with the different colors. One of King Philip's belts surrendered by the Sagamore Annawon to Capt. Church, was nine inches wide, of sufficient length when placed about Capt. Church's shoulders to reach to his ancles, ...

— Wampum - A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society - of Philadelphia • Ashbel Woodward

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