deserve
/dɪˈzɝv/ verb B1- 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.
He/she/it deserves · Past deserved · Past participle deserved · -ing form deserving
Verb forms
- Base form
- deserve
- He/she/it
- deserves
- Past
- deserved
- Past participle
- deserved
- -ing form
- deserving
From the library
There’s a providence that watches over the deserving.
A CONTROVERSY prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of whelps at a birth.
The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?”
All I can say is, that if it be so, ’tis an ill turn, and well deserves to bring double evil on those who have projected it.”
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