suffice

IPA: sʌfˈaɪs

verb

  • (intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.
  • (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
  • To furnish; to supply adequately.
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Examples of "suffice" in Sentences

  • Satisfy plus suffice, which is to say good enough.
  • Does not my word suffice? "contemptuously retorted the duke.
  • Your premise that a mere indictment will suffice is incorrect.
  • Doth not what strait we are in suffice us, but you must make water upon us?’
  • Without quoting from all, let the following lengthy extract suffice, which is from Buchanan:
  • Would not one word suffice to dispel their solicitude, and restore the lost one to their arms?
  • Even if it's for the other Democrat nominee ... this idea that ANY republican candidate will suffice is getting ridiculous!
  • And I do think that the use of spanking when less aggressive measures will suffice is worrisome – if a talking-to or time-out would do the trick, why HIT?
  • What would suffice is a gapless pathway where there all chains of development have proof-of-concept established from random variation and natural selection.
  • No concordance to the English Catholic Bible has been published, and it can hardly be said that one is much needed, except for the deutero-canonical books; the late concordances in English suffice, with the exception noted, for the needs of any intelligent reader.

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