suffice(v = verb.stative) answer, do, 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"
is one way to fulfil, fulfill, live up to, satisfy
Derived forms noun sufficiency₃, noun sufficiency₂, noun sufficiency₁, adjective sufficient₁
Sample sentences: Something ----s; It ----s that CLAUSE

   To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"To recount almighty works,
What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?" [1913 Webster]

1.  To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
"Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter." [1913 Webster]

2.  To furnish; to supply adequately. [1913 Webster]
"The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail." [1913 Webster]

suffice, v.
1 intr. (often foll. by for, or to + infin.) be enough or adequate (that will suffice for our purpose; suffices to prove it).
2 tr. meet the needs of; satisfy (six sufficed him).

Idiom:
suffice it to say I shall content myself with saying.

Etymology:
ME f. OF suffire (suffis-) f. L sufficere (as SUB-, facere make)

VB  be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.