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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Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved..
Meed :: Meed (v. t.) To deserve; to merit.
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..
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
Premerit :: Premerit (v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
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)..
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..
Deserved :: Deserved (imp. & p. p.) of Deserv.
Belong :: Belong (v. t.) To be deserved by.
Meritedly :: Meritedly (adv.) By merit; deservedly.
Respectability :: Respectability (n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
Demerit :: Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Desertlessly :: Desertlessly (adv.) Undeservedly.
Undeserver :: Undeserver (n.) One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy.
Undeserve :: Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
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..
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
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..
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