• (British, America) IPA: /səˈfaɪs/

suffice (suffices, present participle sufficing; past and past participle sufficed)

1. (intransitive) 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.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

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

2. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

   A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.

   • 1838, The Church of England quarterly review (page 203)

     Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.

3. To furnish; to supply adequately.

• (be enough) work, do

• satisfice
• sufficient

• French: suffire
• German: ausreichen, genügen, genug sein
• Portuguese: ser suficiente, atender, satisfazer, bastar, chegar
• Russian: хвата́ть
• Spanish: bastar

• German: zufriedenstellen, befriedigen
• Portuguese: satisfazer
• Russian: удовлетворя́ть

• German: ausstatten
• Portuguese: suplementar