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
Tell her that to condemn and discard one who has not deserved such treatment, without giving him her reasons or a chance to explain is contrary to her nature as I believe it to be.
I’m a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever.
“But you’ve done good work this past year,” Miss Stacy told them on the last evening, “and you deserve a good, jolly vacation.
“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I am _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”
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