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Deserve

//dɪˈzɜːv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. transitive

    "After playing so well, the team really deserved their win."

  2. 2
    be worthy or deserving wordnet
  3. 3
    To earn, win. obsolete

    "That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue."

  4. 4
    To reward, to give in return for service. obsolete

    "Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte"

  5. 5
    To serve; to treat; to benefit. obsolete

    "c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman A man that hath / So well deserved me."

Etymology

From Middle English deserven, from Old French deservir, from Latin dēserviō, from dē- + serviō.

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