OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 4320

suit

/suːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ficar (disused) • pegar a • quedar • quedar bien • sentar bien a • venir bien
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
dar la talla
To be appropriate or apt for.
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
caer a pelo • convenir
To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
He is well suited with his place.
will build to suit [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
caer a pelo • convenir
To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
The place itself was suiting to his care.