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suf-

1 American  
  1. variant of sub- before f: suffer.


suf. 2 American  
Or suff

abbreviation

  1. suffix.


suf. British  

abbreviation

  1. suffix

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Lu suffered an unimportant loss when several junks carrying troops were sunk on Lake Taihu; most of the soldiers suf- fered nothing more than a ducking.

From Time Magazine Archive

And this shal suf- fyce for Numeration on the fyngers.

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert

For ioyning Virgil with Homer I haue suf-     ficientlie declared before.

From The Schoolmaster by Ascham, Roger

I retain, however, a suf- ficiently clear impression of the little superannuated temple, with its four apses and its perceptible odor of antiquity, - the odor of the eleventh century.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry

The situation demands the bring- ing forward of the case against woman's suf- frage; and it must be the full and quite unex- purgated case.

From The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage by Wright, Almroth

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