释义 |
insuffice, v. nonce-wd.|ɪnsəˈfaɪs| [f. in-3+ suffice v., after insufficient.] intr. To fail to suffice; to be insufficient.
1847Ld. G. Bentinck Let. 30 Aug. in Disraeli Life xxiii. 448 She [Ireland] imported three millions sterling worth of breadstuffs, which insufficed to prevent one million, or say half a million, of the people from dying of starvation. |