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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Deservedness :: Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Damnable :: Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature..
Least :: Least (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it..
Deserved :: Deserved (imp. & p. p.) of Deserv.
Meed :: Meed (v. t.) To deserve; to merit.
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.
Deserver :: Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
Merit :: Merit (n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits..
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..
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. 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..
Worthily :: Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
Reverence :: Reverence (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Undeserve :: Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
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