Definition of deserve

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Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

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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..
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..
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..
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..
Reverence :: Reverence (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
Respectability :: Respectability (n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
Premerit :: Premerit (v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.
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..
Meritedly :: Meritedly (adv.) By merit; deservedly.
Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels..
Undeserve :: Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
At :: At (prep.) The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands..
Demerit :: Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
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