serve
/sɝv/ noun C2- An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. · Whose serve is it?
- An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance). · That white eyeliner is such a serve.
Plural serves
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“This will serve me a lesson,” said he, “to look where I step.
I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don’t know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles.
The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox.”
“Then,” said the Ass, “as long as I carry the panniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?”
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