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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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..
Premerit :: Premerit (v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
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..
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..
Deserver :: Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
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..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert..
Demerit :: Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Least :: Least (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it..
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..
Meed :: Meed (v. t.) To deserve; to merit.
Brook :: Brook (v. t.) To deserve; to earn.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Condign :: Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
Belong :: Belong (v. t.) To be deserved by.
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..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved..
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