Definition of deserve

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Deserve (v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.

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Respectability :: Respectability (n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
Deserver :: Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
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..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert..
Tribute :: Tribute (n.) A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection..
Undeserve :: Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Belong :: Belong (v. t.) To be deserved by.
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..
Demerit :: Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
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)..
Meed :: Meed (v. t.) To deserve; to merit.
Least :: Least (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it..
Meritedly :: Meritedly (adv.) By merit; deservedly.
Reverence :: Reverence (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
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..
Deserve :: Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Deservedness :: Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.
Damnable :: Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature..
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