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UK
/səfˈaɪs/
]
[ US /səˈfaɪs/ ]
[ US /səˈfaɪs/ ]
VERB
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be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
A `B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school
Nothing else will serve
A few words would answer
Will $100 do?
This car suits my purpose well
How To Use suffice In A Sentence
- A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- Suffice to say there are a few bruised knees. Times, Sunday Times
- The coulpe or peccavi, is made for a very small matter — a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the coulpe is made. Les Miserables
- It will be remembered that this short period suffices to give only a nucleal point in the matter of writings. The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama Their Leaders and Their Work
- Suffice it to say, different minerals weather and grow at different rates within higher organisms, just as they do in the ambient environment.
- Certainly this suffices to show superabundantly by how many roads Modernism leads to the annihilation of all religion. An anniversary note
- Suffice to say that BECAUSE we can sue employers for injuries and harassment at work, they're not in a position to take wanton liberties with the employees who generate their profits.
- Suffice to say there are alot of newscorp newspapers round the world that wouldn't mind some digg automagic. Archive 2006-10-01
- One example will suffice to illustrate the point.
- Suffice it to say that if I feel any kind of twinge, I wait awhile to see if it's worth the time investment to go. Stupid question.