Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To meet present needs or requirements; be sufficient.
- intransitive verb To be equal to a specified task; be capable.
- intransitive verb To satisfy the needs or requirements of; be enough for.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be sufficient for.
- To satisfy; content; be equal to the wants or demands of.
- To afford in sufficient amount; supply adequately.
- To be enough or sufficient; be equal to the end proposed; be adequate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
- transitive verb To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
- transitive verb obsolete To furnish; to supply adequately.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To be
enough orsufficient ; to meet theneed (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to beadequate . - verb transitive To
satisfy ; tocontent ; to be equal to thewants ordemands of. - verb To
furnish ; to supply adequately.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Your premise that a mere indictment will suffice is incorrect.
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What would suffice is a gapless pathway where there all chains of development have proof-of-concept established from random variation and natural selection.
Assessing Fault 2009
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Even if it's for the other Democrat nominee ... this idea that ANY republican candidate will suffice is getting ridiculous!
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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?
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Satisfy plus suffice, which is to say good enough.
The Elegant Solution Matthew E. May 2007
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Doth not what strait we are in suffice us, but you must make water upon us?’
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Does not my word suffice? "contemptuously retorted the duke.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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Without quoting from all, let the following lengthy extract suffice, which is from Buchanan:
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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Would not one word suffice to dispel their solicitude, and restore the lost one to their arms?
Wild Western Scenes Jones, John Beauchamp 1875
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