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one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in &c<br />

(superabundance) 641; wanton.<br />

abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm;<br />

bristle with; superabound.<br />

render sufficient &c adj.; replenish &c (fill) 52.<br />

Adj. sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent,<br />

satisfactory, valid, tangible.<br />

measured; moderate &c (temperate) 953.<br />

full, &c (complete) 52; ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries;<br />

copious, abundant; abounding &c v.; replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full,<br />

chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless † ; without<br />

stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish &c 641; wholesale.<br />

rich; luxuriant &c (fertile) 168; affluent &c (wealthy) 803; wantless † ; big with &c<br />

(pregnant) 161.<br />

unexhausted † , unwasted † ; exhaustless, inexhaustible.<br />

Adv. sufficiently, amply &c Adj.; full; in abundance &c n.. with no sparing hand; to one's<br />

heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.<br />

Phr. cut and come again [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug [G.].<br />

640. Insufficiency -- N. insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence &c<br />

(impotence) 158; deficiency &c (incompleteness) 53; imperfection &c 651; shortcoming<br />

&c 304; paucity; stint; scantiness &c (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.<br />

scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine,<br />

drought.<br />

dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day.<br />

emptiness, poorness &c adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; a<br />

beggarly account of empty boxes [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence &c 804; insolvency &c<br />

(nonpayment) 808.<br />

V. be insufficient &c adj.; not suffice &c 639; come short of &c 304; run dry.<br />

want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c (poor) 804, live from hand to mouth.<br />

render insufficient &c Adj.; drain of resources, impoverish &c (waste) 638; stint &c<br />

(begrudge) 819; put on short allowance.<br />

do insufficiently &c adv.; scotch the snake.<br />

Adj. insufficient, inadequate; too little &c 32; not enough &c 639; unequal to;<br />

incompetent &c (impotent) 158; weighed in the balance and found wanting; perfunctory<br />

&c (neglect) 460; deficient &c (incomplete) 53; wanting, &c v.; imperfect &c 651; illfurnished,<br />

ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off.<br />

slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft<br />

of &c 789; denuded of; dry, drained.<br />

unprovided, unsupplied † , unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed † ; unstored † , untreasured † ;<br />

empty-handed.<br />

meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved,<br />

famine-stricken, famished; jejune.<br />

scant &c (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be<br />

had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c 819; at the end of one's tether; without resources &c<br />

632; in want &c (poor) 804; in debt &c 806.

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