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suffice

verb
/səˈfaɪs/CA/səˈfʌɪs/UK/səˈfaɪz/

Etymology

From Middle English suffisen, from Middle French souffire, from Latin sufficiō (“supply, be adequate”), from sub (“under”) + faciō (“do, make”). Cognate with French suffire.

  1. derived from sufficiō
  2. derived from souffire
  3. inherited from suffisen

Definitions

  1. To be enough or sufficient

    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.
    • To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?

  2. To satisfy

    To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

    • A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
    • Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.

  3. To furnish

    To furnish; to supply adequately.

    • During the festival, the temple suffices food to the beggars.
    • The king sufficed his army with food and weapons before the great battle.

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Derived

suffice it to say, sufficive, unsufficed

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suffice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01suffice02good03capability04allowing05allow06suitable07sufficient08suffices

A definitional loop anchored at suffice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at suffice

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA