Definition of deserve

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Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise..

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Condign :: Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
Reverence :: Reverence (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Merit :: Merit (n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits..
Desert :: Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit..
Worthily :: Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Demerit :: Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Wrong :: Wrong (v. t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure..
Brook :: Brook (v. t.) To deserve; to earn.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise..
Merit :: Merit (n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment..
Undeserve :: Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Premerit :: Premerit (v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Belong :: Belong (v. t.) To be deserved by.
Deservedness :: Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.
Respectability :: Respectability (n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
Satire :: Satire (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal..
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not)..
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