Deserve

Verb

 * 1) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
 * After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.
 * After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.
 * This argument deserves a closer examination.
 * 1)  To earn, win.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
 * That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.
 * 1)  To reward, to give in return for service.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:
 * ‘Grauntemercy,’ seyde the Kynge. ‘And I lyve, Sir Lambegus, I shall deserve hit.’

Synonyms for Deserve
merit, win, earn, have right to, be worthy of.

Antonyms for Deserve
worthy of, undeserving.

Related terms

 * desert
 * serve somebody right

Etymology
From deservir:, from  deservire:, from de-: + servire:.

Translations

 * Arabic: استحق
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: merèixer
 * Chinese: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: zasloužit, zasloužit si
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: érdemel,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 値する
 * Polish: zasłużyć / zasługiwać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: заслуживать, заслужить
 * Slovak: zaslúžiť si
 * Spanish:

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