D defs.my
Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Suffice

/səf-īs'/ · Suf·fice · IPA /səˈfaɪs/
01 v. i. To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
imp. & p. p. Sufficed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sufficing
  1. 1.
    To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
    “To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?” Milton.
02 v. t. To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
  1. 1.
    To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
    “Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.” — Deut. iii. 26.
  2. 2.
    To furnish; to supply adequately.[Obs.]
    “The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail.” Dryden.