Definition of "suffice"

suffice

/səˈfaɪs/

verb
third-person singular simple present suffices, present participle sufficing, simple 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.
  Quotations
  To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
2. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
  Quotations
  Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.
  1838, The Church of England quarterly review, page 203
3. To furnish; to supply adequately.