Suffice vs Gratify - What's the difference?
suffice | gratify |
To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
* Milton
To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
* 1838 , The Church of England quarterly review (page 203)
To furnish; to supply adequately.
To please.
To make content, to satisfy.
To anger, disquiet, fluster, intimidate, or any of the like
As verbs the difference between suffice and gratify
is that suffice is to be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate while gratify is to please.suffice
English
Verb
(suffic)- Two capsules of fish oil a day suffices .
- To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice ?
- A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
- Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.