Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 189
Suffering (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc. -- Suf"fer*ing*ly, adv.
Suffering (a.) Troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees".
Suffering (a.) Very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: miserable, suffering, wretched].
Suffering (n.) A state of acute pain [syn: agony, suffering, excruciation].
Suffering (n.) Misery resulting from affliction [syn: suffering, woe].
Suffering (n.) Psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" [syn: distress, hurt, suffering].
Suffering (n.) Feelings of mental or physical pain [syn: suffering, hurt].
Sufficed (imp. & p. p.) of Suffice
Sufficing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffice
Suffice (v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. -- Chaucer.
To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice? -- Milton.
Suffice (v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. -- Spenser.
Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. -- Deut. iii. 26.
Suffice (v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.]
The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. -- Dryden.
Suffice (v.) 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" [syn: suffice, do, answer, serve].
Sufficience (n.) Sufficiently. [Obs.]
Sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. -- Boyle.
Sufficiency (n.) Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. -- Shak.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. -- Eikon Basilike.
Sufficiency (n.) Adequate substance or means; competence. "An elegant sufficiency." -- Thomson.
Sufficiency (n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
Sufficiency (n.) Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. -- Sir W. Temple.
Sufficiency (n.) Sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency".
Sufficiency (n.) An adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country" [syn: enough, sufficiency].
Sufficiency (n.) The quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" [syn: sufficiency, adequacy] [ant: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency].
Sufficient (a.) Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
My grace
is sufficient for thee. -- 2 Cor. xii. 9.
Sufficient (a.) Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments;
of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
Who is sufficient for these things? -- 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Sufficient (a.) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond. -- Shak.
Sufficient (a.) Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content. [R.]
Thou art the most sufficient (I'll say for thee), Not to believe a thing. -- Beau. & Fl.
Syn: Enough; adequate; competent; full; satisfactory; ample.
Sufficient (a.) Of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food" [ant: deficient, insufficient].
Sufficiently (adv.) To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.
Sufficiently (adv.) To a sufficient degree; "she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin" [ant: insufficiently].
Sufficing (a.) Affording enough; satisfying. -- Suf*fi"cing*ly, adv. -- Suf*fi"cing*ness, n.
Suffice (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Sufficed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sufficing.] To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. -- Chaucer.
To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice? -- Milton.
Suffisance (n.) Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment. [Obs.]
He could in little thing have suffisaunce. -- Chaucer.
Suffisant (a.) Sufficient. [Obs.]
Suffix (n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
Suffix (n.) (Math.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
Suffixed (imp. & p. p.) of Suffix.
Suffixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffix.
Suffix (v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
Suffix (n.) An affix that is added at the end of the word [syn: suffix, postfix].
Suffix (v.) Attach a suffix to; "suffix words" [ant: prefix].
Suffixion (n.) The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
Suffixment (n.) Suffixion. [R.] -- Earle.
Sufflaminate (v. t.) To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise. [Obs.]
Sufflaminate (v. t.) Hence, to stop; to impede. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Sufflate (v. t.) To blow up; to inflate; to inspire. [R.] -- T. Ward.
Sufflation (n.) The act of blowing up or inflating. [R.] -- Coles.
Suffocate (a.) Suffocated; choked. --Shak.
Suffocated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffocate
Suffocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffocate
Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. -- Shak.
Suffocate (v. t.) To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
Suffocate (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." -- collier.
Suffocate (v.) Deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" [syn: smother, asphyxiate, suffocate].
Suffocate (v.) Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke].
Suffocate (v.) Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating --living at home with his aged parents in the small village" [syn: suffocate, choke].
Suffocate (v.) Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" [syn: suffocate, choke].
Suffocate (v.) Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate].
Suffocate (v.) Feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating".
Suffocate (v.) Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate].
Suffocating () a. & n. from Suffocate, v. -- Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.
Suffocating (a.) Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: smothering, suffocating, suffocative].
Suffocation (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
Note: The term suffocation is sometimes employed synonymously with asphyxia. In the strict medico-legal sense it signifies asphyxia induced by obstruction of the respiration otherwise than by direct pressure on the neck (hanging, strangulation) or submersion (drowning). -- Quain.
Suffocation (n.) Killing by depriving of oxygen [syn: suffocation, asphyxiation].
Suffocation (n.) The condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture" [syn: suffocation, asphyxiation].
Suffocative (a.) Tending or able to choke or stifle. "Suffocative catarrhs." -- Arbuthnot.
Suffossion (n.) A digging under; an undermining. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Suffragan (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.
Suffragan (n.) An assistant.
Suffragan (n.) (Eccl.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.
Suffragan (n.) An assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese [syn: suffragan, suffragan bishop].
Suffraganship (n.) The office of a suffragan.
Suffragant (a. & n.) Suffragan. [Obs.]
Suffragated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffragate
Suffragating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffragate
Suffragate (v. i. & t.) To vote or vote with. [Obs.] "Suffragating tribes." -- Dryden.
Suffragator (n.) [L.] One who assists or favors by his vote. [Obs.]
Suffrage (n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
I ask your voices and your suffrages. -- Shak.
Suffrage (n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers. -- Atterbury.
Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. -- South.
Suffrage (n.) (Eccl.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
Suffrage (n.) (Eccl.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed. -- Shipley.
I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. -- Creed of Pope Pius IV.
Suffrage (n.) Aid; assistance. [A Latinism] [Obs.]
Suffrage (n.) The right to vote; franchise.
Suffrage (v. t.) To vote for; to elect. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Suffrage (n.) A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to vote, vote, suffrage].
Suffrage, () Government. Vote; the act of voting.
Suffrage, () The right of suffrage is given by the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 2, to the electors in each state, as shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. Vide 2 Story on the Const. Sec. 578, et seq.; Amer. Citiz. 201; 1 Bl. Com. 171; 2 Wils. Lect. 130; Montesq. Esp. des Lois, Ii v. 11, c. 6; 1 Tucker's Bl. Com. App. 52, 3. See Division of opinion.
Suffragette. (n.) A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.
Note: This term was applied mostly to women in the United States prior to the adoption of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920, giving women the right to vote. Modern use of this term usually refers to the women who advocated female suffrage [5] in the years prior to 1920.
Suffraginous (a.) Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast. [Obs.]
Suffragist (n.) One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.
Suffragist (n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.
It is curious that . . . Louisa Castelefort should be obliged after her marriage immediately to open her doors and turn ultra liberal, or an universal suffragist. -- Miss Edgeworth.
Suffrago (n.) (Zool.) The heel joint.
Suffrance (n.) Sufferance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Suffrutescent (a.) (Bot.) Slightly woody at the base.
Suffruticose (a.) (Bot.) Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.
Suffruticous (a.) Suffruticose.
Suffumigated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffumigate
Suffumigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffumigate
Suffumigate (v. t.) To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
Suffumigation (n.) The operation of suffumigating.
Suffumige (n.) A medical fume. [Obs.] -- Harvey.
Suffused (imp. & p. p.) of Suffuse
Suffusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffuse
Suffuse (v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. -- Pope.
Suffusion (n.) The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. -- Ray.
Suffusion (n.) That with which a thing is suffused.
Suffusion (n.) (Zool.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
Sufi (n.) A title or surname of the king of Persia.
Sufi (n.) One of a certain order of religious men in Persia. [Written also sofi.]
Sufism (n.) A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives. [Written also sofism.]
Sug (n.) A kind of worm or larva. -- Walton.
Sugar (n.) （食用）糖 [U]；方糖 [C] A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
Note: The term sugar includes several commercial grades, as the white or refined, granulated, loaf or lump, and the raw brown or muscovado. In a more general sense, it includes several distinct chemical compounds, as the glucoses, or grape sugars (including glucose proper, dextrose, and levulose), and the sucroses, or true sugars (as cane sugar). All sugars are carbohydrates.
See Carbohydrate. The glucoses, or grape sugars, are ketone alcohols of the formula C6H12O6, and they turn the plane of polarization to the right or the left.
They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The only sugar (called acrose) as yet produced artificially belongs to this class. The sucroses, or cane sugars, are doubled glucose anhydrides of the formula C12H22O11. They are usually not fermentable as such (cf. Sucrose), and they act on polarized light.
Sugar (n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
Sugar (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words. [Colloq.]
Acorn sugar. See Quercite.
Cane sugar, sugar made from the sugar cane; sucrose, or an isomeric sugar. See Sucrose.
Diabetes sugar, or Diabetic sugar (Med. Chem.), A variety of sugar (grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus; -- the presence of such a sugar in the urine is used to diagnose the illness.
Fruit sugar. See under Fruit, and Fructose.
Grape sugar, A sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also produced from many other sources. See Dextrose, and Glucose.
Invert sugar. See under Invert.
Malt sugar, A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found in malt. See Maltose.
Manna sugar, A substance found in manna, resembling, but distinct from, the sugars. See Mannite.
Milk sugar, A variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See Lactose.
Muscle sugar, A sweet white crystalline substance isomeric with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called also heart sugar. See Inosite.
Pine sugar. See Pinite.
Starch sugar (Com. Chem.), A variety of dextrose made by the action of heat and acids on starch from corn, potatoes, etc.; -- called also potato sugar, corn sugar, and, inaccurately, invert sugar. See Dextrose, and Glucose.
Sugar barek, One who refines sugar.
Sugar+beet+(Bot.),+a+variety+of+beet+({Beta+vulgaris">Sugar beet (Bot.), a variety of beet ({Beta vulgaris) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them.
Sugar berry (Bot.), The hackberry.
Sugar bird (Zool.), Any one of several species of small South American singing birds of the genera Coereba, Dacnis, and allied genera belonging to the family Coerebidae. They are allied to the honey eaters.
Sugar bush. See Sugar orchard.
Sugar camp, A place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made.
Sugar candian, Sugar candy. [Obs.]
Sugar candy, Sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar.
Sugar cane (Bot.), A tall perennial grass ({Saccharum officinarium), with thick short-jointed stems. It has been cultivated for ages as the principal source of sugar.
Sugar loaf. (a) A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone.
Sugar loaf. (b) A hat shaped like a sugar loaf.
Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf? -- J. Webster.
Sugar+maple+(Bot.),+the+rock+maple+({Acer+saccharinum">Sugar maple (Bot.), The rock maple ({Acer saccharinum). See Maple.
Sugar mill, A machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed.
Sugar mite. (Zool.) (a) A small mite ({Tyroglyphus sacchari), often found in great numbers in unrefined sugar.
Sugar mite. (Zool.) (b) The lepisma.
Sugar of lead. See Sugar, 2, above.
Sugar of milk. See under Milk.
Sugar orchard, A collection of maple trees selected and preserved for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; -- called also, sometimes, sugar bush. [U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Sugar pine (Bot.), An immense coniferous tree ({Pinus Lambertiana) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been used as a substitute for sugar.
Sugar squirrel (Zool.), An Australian flying phalanger ({Belideus sciureus), having a long bushy tail and a large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See Illust. under Phlanger.
Sugar tongs, Small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl.
Sugar tree. (Bot.) See Sugar maple, above.
Sugar (v. i.) 製成槭糖；形成糖；【英】【俚】偷懶 In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [Local, U.S.]
Sugar-coated (a.) (Sweet) (Of foods or pills) （食物或藥片）裹有糖的，糖衣的 Covered with a thin layer of sugar.
Sugar-coated (a.) (Deceiving) (Disapproving) （公告或承諾）外裹糖衣，將不好的一面隱藏住的，巧加粉飾的 An announcement or promise that is sugar-coated is intended to seem positive or pleasant, although in fact it will result in something unpleasant or unacceptable.
Sugar-coating (n.) 糖衣；甜言蜜語；美化，粉飾 When someone isn't honest with another person - to a point -
// Sugar-coating hides the taste of pills.
Sugar-coating (n.) The act or process of covering something with sugar.
Sugar-coating (n.) A coating or layer of sugar or a sugary substance.
Sugar-coating (n.) A thing used to make something else considered unpleasant or disagreeable seem attractive or palatable.
Sugared (imp. & p. p.) of Sugar
Sugaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sugar
Sugar (v. t.) 加糖於；使甜；使容易被接受；粉飾 [（+up/ over）] To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
Sugar (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. -- Shak.
Sugar (n.) A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative [syn: sugar, refined sugar].
Sugar (n.) An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain [syn: carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar].
Sugar (n.) Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum].
Sugar (v.) Sweeten with sugar; "sugar your tea" [syn: sugar, saccharify].
Sugared (a.) Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." -- Spenser. Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
Sugar (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Sugared; p. pr. & vb. n. Sugaring.] To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to
mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." -- G. Eliot.
Sugar (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. -- Shak.
Sugared (a.) With sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored].
Sugared (a.) Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
Sugariness (n.) 砂糖；甜味；恭維話 The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
Sugariness (n.) The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet, sweetness, sugariness].
Sugariness (n.) The sweetness of sugar.
Sugaring (n.) The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.
Sugaring (n.) The act or process of making sugar.
Sugarless (a.) 無糖的 Without sugar; free from sugar.
Sugarless (a.) Not containing sugar [syn: sugarless, nonsweet] [ant: sugary].
Sugarplum (n.) 小糖果；甜言蜜語 A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
Sugarplum (n.) Any of various small sugary candies.
Sugary (a.) 含糖的；甘的；甜言蜜語的 Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. -- Spenser.
Sugary (a.) Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
Sugary (a.) Containing sugar; "he eats too much sugary food" [ant: nonsweet, sugarless]
Sugescent (a.) Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] -- Paley.