suffice
[suh-fahys, -fahyz]
- to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
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- to be enough or adequate for; satisfy.
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Origin of suffice
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Examples from the Web for sufficed
Contemporary Examples
Any sharp objects would have sufficed, particularly when coupled with the bluff of having a bomb.
Historical Examples
These few words had sufficed to shame me heartily of my cowardice.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
All her pulling only sufficed to keep the boat from going with the stream.
The Incomplete AmoristE. Nesbit
In short, I became a personality, and that sufficed for my childish pride.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
It now sufficed that she should condemn him, and he at once felt guilty.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
suffice
- to be adequate or satisfactory for (something)
- suffice it to say that (takes a clause as object) let us say no more than that; I shall just say that
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French suffire, from Latin sufficere from sub- below + facere to make
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Word Origin and History for sufficed
suffice
v.
early 14c., from stem of Old French souffire "be sufficient," from Latin sufficere "supply, suffice," from sub "up to" (see sub-) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Phrase suffice it to say (late 14c.) is a rare surviving subjunctive.
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