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suffice English

Meaning suffice meaning

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suffice

— verb (= do, answer, serve) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity A few words would answer This car suits my purpose well Will $100 do? A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school Nothing else will serve

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be enough do enough sufficient be sufficient adequate satisfy be adequate serve last answer serve the purpose satiate meet requirements gratify content be satisfied be competent work wash to be tide over sufficient enough suffice for stop stay serve one’s purpose sate reach quit obtain last out last for keep going indulge go around gain feed equal defray complete catch up with bridge over be sufficient for be enough for be ample be adequate for be able assuage allay

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Simple sentences

For a language to be international, it does not suffice to say that it is so.
That doesn't suffice.
That should suffice.
This will suffice for now.

Movie subtitles

Thank you, Mr Antoine, but tea will suffice.
Suffice to say it's not a perfume anybody's maiden aunt would wear.
Shattered lives didn't suffice.
Broken homes didn't suffice.
Suffice it to say that I disapprove of your indiscretions.
And that should suffice as an introduction.
But that doesn't always suffice.
Rather than go into any lengthy generic explanation of my existence, suffice it to say that i am a genie.
Suffice it that the blood of a thousand men and women was spilt within these walls.
My company alone will suffice.
Jinnai's company will suffice.
Except, he doesn't have any brains yet. Yours would suffice.
If the worst comes to the worst, my observations would have to suffice.
The head will suffice!
The conditions are still rougher than at the top of Mount Everest, but for you and me, it should suffice.
Eventually, they all will be taken care of however, Mr. Lloyd is quite a catch and will have to suffice for the moment.
The official statement must suffice.
I will if you will. 2,000 yen should suffice.
Your thought response will suffice.
In a spy film, nabbing de Georges would suffice.
A little bend in the knee will suffice.
Your name will suffice.
Yours would suffice.
Before you start, you don't have to buy me champagne or a fur coat; just a simple thank you will suffice.
It will have to suffice, yes.
Well, they have heard better and more beautiful voices than mine. But it's will suffice - we won't have the change the schedules this season.
We've won enough bonuses. It will suffice.
A single pillow will suffice.
Two or three samurai won't suffice.
Good, it's should suffice that I pity you.
Our canteen doesn't suffice?

News and current affairs

In fact, there is very little Merkel has to do after her election to make her mark on foreign policy; the visible change of style will suffice, at least at first.
Although it is likely, the short- and long-term outcomes of such changes may not always suffice in the fight against work-related stress.
So only a guilty verdict would suffice, but it still had to be qualified with a finding of insanity.
Their message to the rulers is that it will no longer suffice to identify being Saudi exclusively with being Wahhabi Najdi.
But this alone will not suffice.
In these conditions, a strong judicial system and police force do not always suffice to contain corruption.
America doesn't need permanent allies and institutions, they say, because a coalition of the willing will suffice.
Again, one of many examples will suffice.
America's proposal to rely on minor modifications in current arrangements, while relying on the market, though it is a position long advocated by financial markets, will not suffice.
No amount of interdiction will suffice if we do not explain clearly what, precisely, is wrong with using performance enhancing drugs in sport.
There is broad agreement that streamlining is required; but that will not suffice.
The usual approach - delegating responsibility to regulators to work out the details - will not suffice.
Strong economic-governance rules, however, will not suffice.
At their meeting at the end of June, European leaders acknowledged for the first time the multiple dimensions of the crisis, accepting that austerity - putting everyone's house in order - will not suffice.
But scattered moves in the right direction will not suffice.
Only a major global bargain between the West and the rest will suffice.
Quite simply, the ad hoc policymaking that directed interventions in the Balkans, Somalia, southwest Asia, and the Middle East in the past two decades will not suffice in this new era of limitations.
Moreover, the American public's willingness to become enmeshed in yet another risky military venture, when boosting homeland security could suffice, is dubious, at best.
But, without trade reform and action on climate change, more and better aid will not suffice.
Yet not even this will suffice if we are to build on rock and not on sand.
Far fewer will suffice for most countries.
Are Western leaders right to assume that the two challenges are distinct, and that containment will suffice in the case of Russia, while rollback is absolutely necessary in the case of the Islamic State?
But if 150,000 US troops could not stabilize Iraq in the absence of an inclusive and competent government, the limited measures on offer now simply will not suffice.

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