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What is the verb for sufficient?

What's the verb for sufficient? Here's the word you're looking for.

suffice
  1. (intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate; to be good enough.
  2. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
  3. To furnish; to supply adequately.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The shady nature of the walk meant that we could not take photographs in the bush, so a description will have to suffice.”
      “Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.”
      “I cannot tell you the joy of reunion, for no words would suffice to delve into such deep delight, such ecstatic rejoicing!”
suffices
sufficeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of suffice
  2. Examples:
    1. “For one sufficeth unto generation, as hath been observed in semicastration, and oft times in carnous ruptures.”
      “It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars.”
      “But if in the dissolving there be aqua fortis, it sufficeth to calcine it.”
sufficest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of suffice
sufficed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of suffice
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The traditional public religion of the Roman State had sufficed for public purposes, but offered little to the individual.”
      “Through all this he lived in the College too, in a single small room that sufficed for his bachelor requirements.”
      “A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.”
sufficing
  1. present participle of suffice
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “What can this signify but that the service or satisfaction we expect from the novelty falls short of sufficing to convince us?”
      “It is a love so complete, so sufficing, that I know I could make you forget this girl.”
      “The whole year a central water supply is warranted in sufficing standard and it's all in price.”
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