EGAVE

suffice

About 5.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.
    For this plum cake, two eggs should suffice.
  2. verb To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
    A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
  3. verb To furnish; to supply adequately.
    During the festival, the temple suffices food to the beggars.

Similar words

answer do sufficient adequate enough serve fit satisfy meet gratify

Often followed by

to it for as in here if that and

Word family

sufficed sufficer sufficers suffices sufficing

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