[
US
/ˈsut/
]
[ UK /sˈuːt/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːt/ ]
VERB
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enhance the appearance of
Mourning becomes Electra
This behavior doesn't suit you! -
be agreeable or acceptable to
This suits my needs -
be agreeable or acceptable
This time suits me -
accord or comport with
This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!
NOUN
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playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
in bridge you must follow suit
what suit is trumps?
a flush is five cards in the same suit - a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
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a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
the family brought suit against the landlord -
a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
they buried him in his best suit -
a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
its was a brief and intense courtship -
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
all the suits care about is the bottom line
How To Use suit In A Sentence
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
- If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
- Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
- My store-bought long dresses are too "dressy" and made of rayon and other finer fabrics that are not suitable for housework. Sewing Simple Clothing
- I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
- The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
- Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
- The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
