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deserve
verb
de·serve
di-ˈzərv
deserved; deserving
Synonyms of deserve
transitive verb
: to be worthy of : merit
deserves another chance
intransitive verb
: to be worthy, fit, or suitable for some reward or requital
… have become recognized as they deserve.—T. S. Eliot a worse punishment than he deserved
deserver
noun
Synonyms
earn
merit
rate
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Examples of deserve in a Sentence
the team really deserved that victory after the way they played
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This slightly fancy, yet quite easy, way to serve eggs and toast deserves the slightly fancy name of Goldenrod Eggs.
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Following last week's loss in her home state of South Carolina, Haley remained adamant that voters in the places that followed deserved an alternative to Trump despite his dominance thus far in the campaign.
—CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
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Jennifer Lawrence deserves more recognition for her bold and sophisticated fashion choices.
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The fans didn’t deserve to have to hear about that.
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Etymology
Middle English deserven, disserven "to be worthy of, attain what one deserves," borrowed from Anglo-French deservir, desservir, deserver "to deserve, merit, earn, be entitled to" (also continental Old & Middle French), going back to Medieval Latin dēservīre "to serve, officiate (at mass), hold land by service, earn, deserve," going back to Latin, "to spend one's time in, devote oneself (to pursuits, interests), be submissive to, comply with," from dē- de- + servīre "to perform duties for (a master) in the capacity of a slave, act in subservience, be at the service of" — more at serve entry 1
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13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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deserve
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de·serve
di-ˈzərv
deserved; deserving
: to be worthy of : merit
deserves another chance
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deserveverb [ T not continuous ] uk
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B1 to have earned or to be given something because of the way you have behaved or the qualities you have: After all that hard work, you deserve a holiday. Chris deserves our special thanks for all his efforts. I hope they get the punishment they deserve. [ + to infinitive ] They certainly deserved to win that game.
More examplesFewer examplesThey deserve praise for all their hard work.The proposals that you have put forward deserve serious consideration.A business as poorly managed as that one doesn't deserve to succeed.You should treat those remarks with the contempt that they deserve.He was a good strong leader, she said, who deserved his party's unreserved support.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deserving and deserved
birthright
come
comeuppance
deserts
deserved
deservedly
get your comeuppance
get your just deserts idiom
go
had it coming (to you) idiom
hard-earned
just
merit
serve
undeservedly
undeserving
undeservingly
unmerited
well deserved
worthy
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Idioms
someone deserves a medal
he/she deserves whatever/everything he/she gets
(Definition of deserve from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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to have earned something or be given something because of your actions or qualities: [ T ] These charities deserve your support. [ + to infinitive ] The American people deserve to know what went wrong. [ T ] I hope those crooks get what they deserve (= receive a punishment that suits their crime).
(Definition of deserve from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of deserve
deserve
The 28 color photographs add to the explanations in the text, and the numerous diagrams and geologic maps, all in colour, deserve much attention.
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And a theatre that has produced such high quality work in the past deserves a resident company.
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It deserves the welcome which students reserve for a really important contribution to literary criticism.
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Nothing tells us that practical indifference deserves judicial punishment as distinct from other kinds of social responses to blameworthy conduct.
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But perhaps its greatest contribution is its final section, the selected bibliography, which deserves special recognition for its inclusiveness and organization.
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This series is a momentous undertaking, which deserves full recognition and praise, including the volume at hand.
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They deserve my thanks for their kindness, but also for their more trenchant criticisms.
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Not every scientific idealization deserves as much respect as that of a perfect gas!
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But falsifiability is only a minimum necessary condition for a hypothesis to be deserving of scientific consideration.
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This issue deserves serious multidisciplinary38 investigation, which is beyond the scope of this article.
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For example, politicians from economically less privileged but politically over-represented districts may claim that poor, depopulated, and rural areas deserve to have more political weight.
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Our conclusions concern two apparent asymmetries in our response data which deserve some commentary.
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The first is that their own role in arranging a superb collection, for which they deserve much praise, might go unremarked.
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Not only is the level of the scholarly essays high, but the layout of the book also deserves admiration.
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His alternative to the medical model of disability, the administrative model, deserves more attention than it has received.
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值得, 應得…
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आपण ज्या प्रकारे वागले आहोत किंवा आपल्यात असलेल्या गुणांमुळे कमावले आहे किंवा काहीतरी दिले आहे…
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haketmek, layık olmak, hak etmek…
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mériter…
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merèixer…
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verdienen…
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நீங்கள் நடந்து கொண்ட விதம் அல்லது உங்களிடம் உள்ள குணங்கள் காரணமாக எதையாவது பெற அல்லது கொடுக்கப்பட வேண்டும்…
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के लायक होना, का अधिकारी होना, का पात्र होना…
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હકદાર હોવું…
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fortjene, gøre sig fortjent til…
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förtjäna…
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patut…
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verdienen…
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fortjene…
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اہل ہونا, مستحق ہونا, حقدار ہونا…
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заслуговувати, бути гідним…
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заслуживать…
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يَسْتَحِق…
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สมควรได้รับ…
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xứng đáng…
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deserveverb [ T not continuous ] us
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B1 to have earned or to be given something because of the way you have behaved or the qualities you have: After all that hard work, you deserve a vacation. Chris deserves our special thanks for all his efforts. I hope they get the punishment they deserve. [ + to infinitive ] They certainly deserved to win that game.
More examplesFewer examplesThey deserve praise for all their hard work.The proposals that you have put forward deserve serious consideration.A business as poorly managed as that one doesn't deserve to succeed.You should treat those remarks with the contempt that they deserve.He was a good strong leader, she said, who deserved his party's unreserved support.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deserving and deserved
birthright
come
comeuppance
deserts
deserved
deservedly
get your comeuppance
get your just deserts idiom
go
had it coming (to you) idiom
hard-earned
just
merit
serve
undeservedly
undeserving
undeservingly
unmerited
well deserved
worthy
See more results »
Idioms
someone deserves a medal
he/she deserves whatever/everything he/she gets
(Definition of deserve from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
deserve | Intermediate English
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to have earned something or be given something because of your actions or qualities: [ T ] These charities deserve your support. [ + to infinitive ] The American people deserve to know what went wrong. [ T ] I hope those crooks get what they deserve (= receive a punishment that suits their crime).
(Definition of deserve from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of deserve
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But these cans deserve a lot of love.
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Did you have to overcome that tendency or did you find that the reputation is not deserved?
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First, "unborn children" deserve the same legal protection as born children.
From Slate Magazine
This human being, as we all do, has the unalienable right to life and deserves full protection under the law.
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The other deserves a pink slip and a scarlet letter, not an orange jumpsuit.
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It's a fundamental human rights issue and every person born deserves to not have their nerves cut out of them.
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You don't stand there and judge whether they deserve your hand or not!
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Your 18-month-old doesn't deserve a timeout for not knowing how to share; sharing is a learned skill, and she probably hasn't mastered it yet.
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The problem is that systems have not been put into place to give 3yr degrees the recognition they deserve.
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What is the pronunciation of deserve?
B1
Translations of deserve
in Chinese (Traditional)
值得, 應得…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
值得, 应得…
See more
in Spanish
merecer…
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in Portuguese
merecer…
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in more languages
in Marathi
in Japanese
in Turkish
in French
in Catalan
in Dutch
in Tamil
in Hindi
in Gujarati
in Danish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Urdu
in Ukrainian
in Russian
in Telugu
in Arabic
in Bengali
in Czech
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Korean
in Italian
आपण ज्या प्रकारे वागले आहोत किंवा आपल्यात असलेल्या गुणांमुळे कमावले आहे किंवा काहीतरी दिले आहे…
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～する価値がある, ～の報いを受けて当然だ, に値（あたい）する…
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haketmek, layık olmak, hak etmek…
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mériter…
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merèixer…
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verdienen…
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நீங்கள் நடந்து கொண்ட விதம் அல்லது உங்களிடம் உள்ள குணங்கள் காரணமாக எதையாவது பெற அல்லது கொடுக்கப்பட வேண்டும்…
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के लायक होना, का अधिकारी होना, का पात्र होना…
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હકદાર હોવું…
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fortjene, gøre sig fortjent til…
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förtjäna…
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patut…
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verdienen…
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fortjene…
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اہل ہونا, مستحق ہونا, حقدار ہونا…
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заслуговувати, бути гідним…
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заслуживать…
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అర్హత, మీరు ప్రవర్తించిన విధానం లేక మీలో ఉన్న లక్షణాల వల్ల ఏదైనా సంపాదించడం లేక ఇవ్వబడడం…
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يَسْتَحِق…
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প্রাপ্য হওয়া বা প্রাপ্য মনে করা, পাওয়ার যোগ্যতা থাকা…
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zasloužit si…
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layak, berhak…
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สมควรได้รับ…
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xứng đáng…
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zasługiwać na…
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-할만 하다…
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meritare, meritarsi…
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Definition of deserve verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
deserve verb /dɪˈzɜːv/ /dɪˈzɜːrv/not used in the progressive tensesVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they deserve /dɪˈzɜːv/ /dɪˈzɜːrv/ he / she / it deserves /dɪˈzɜːvz/ /dɪˈzɜːrvz/ past simple deserved /dɪˈzɜːvd/ /dɪˈzɜːrvd/ past participle deserved /dɪˈzɜːvd/ /dɪˈzɜːrvd/ -ing form deserving /dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ/ /dɪˈzɜːrvɪŋ/Idioms
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to do something or show qualities that mean a particular reaction, reward or punishment is appropriate deserve something You deserve a rest after all that hard work.The report deserves careful consideration.This idea deserves more attention.One player in particular deserves a mention.England deserve tremendous credit for the way they played to deserve praise/respectWhat have I done to deserve this?He finally received the recognition that he so richly deserved. deserve to do something They didn't deserve to win.He deserves to be locked up for ever for what he did. deserve doing something Several other points deserve mentioning.Extra ExamplesShe deserves some reward for all her hard work.This hotel fully deserves its four-star grading.His work received only a tiny mention in the journal; he deserves better.It's true she made a mistake but she hardly deserves to lose her job.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverbcertainlydefinitelyreally…prepositionforphrasesdeserve betterwell deservedSee full entryWord OriginMiddle English: from Old French deservir, from Latin deservire ‘serve well or zealously’.
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Idioms somebody deserves a medal (informal) used to say that you admire somebody because they have done something difficult or unpleasantShe deserves a medal for teaching those 5-year-olds all day!You really deserve a medal!
get what you deserve | deserve all/everything you get | deserve what's coming (to you) (informal) used to say that you think somebody has earned the bad things that happen to themHe did wrong, and he got what he deserved.Let's just say they deserve what's coming to them. one good turn deserves another (saying) you should help somebody who has helped you See deserve in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee deserve in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishCheck pronunciation:
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024How to use deserve in a sentenceAs we have done since April, our office will continue to work tirelessly and without distraction to provide the answers that the Prude family and Rochester community deserve.Officials Worked To Deliberately Delay Release Of Daniel Prude Body Cam Footage | mharris | September 17, 2020 | Essence.comHow much crap you endure should not be indicative of the love that you deserve.Get Gabrielle Union’s Best Career Advice | Joshua Eferighe | September 16, 2020 | OzyYou may nominate as many organizations or individuals as you feel deserve the recognition.Nominations now open: Search Engine Land Award for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Search Marketing | Henry Powderly | September 11, 2020 | Search Engine LandBeing ushered out an entire round sooner — in a five-game gentleman’s sweep, and as the favorite — deserves far greater scrutiny.The Bucks Played It Safe And Made The Wrong Kind Of History | Chris Herring (chris.herring@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 9, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWhile I may not have the money to attend fundraising dinners with the Democratic Party’s leaders, I deserve a party—and an economy—that returns as much benefit to me as I provide to it.Why the Democratic Party must make a clean break with Wall Street | matthewheimer | September 8, 2020 | FortuneTavakoli and the scores of other activists, bloggers, journalists and lawyers jailed in Iran deserve our unwavering support.Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.How Much Money Does a Band Really Make on Tour? | Jack Conte | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWomen deserve to have meaningful roles in the shaping of the future of Afghanistan.We’re Not Done in Afghanistan | Kimberley Motley | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn no way, he said, did Brown deserve to die for what began as petty theft.A Black Cop’s Tough Words for Mike Brown | Mary M. Chapman | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey were advised to “try showing a little class” and “[d]ress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.”Let’s Not Forget: We Were All Teenagers Once | Russell Saunders | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensAs such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.History gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnTell Lady Maude the candid truth, and take shame and blame to yourself, as you deserve.Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodThere is one other department of children's art which clearly does deserve to be studied with some care—their drawing.Children's Ways | James SullySee More ExamplesBritish Dictionary definitions for deservedeserve/ (dɪˈzɜːv) /verb(tr) to be entitled to or worthy of; merit(intr foll by of) obsolete to be worthyOrigin of deserve1C13: from Old French deservir, from Latin dēservīre to serve devotedly, from de- + servīre to serveDerived forms of deservedeserved, adjectivedeservedness (dɪˈzɜːvɪdnɪs), noundeserver, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Idioms and Phrases with deservedeservesee one good turn deserves another.The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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