[ UK /səfˈa‍ɪs/ ]
[ US /səˈfaɪs/ ]
VERB
  1. 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
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How To Use suffice In A Sentence

  • Suffice to say there are a few bruised knees. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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.
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