"deserve" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /dɪˈzɜːv/ [General-Australian, Received-Pronunciation], /dɪˈzɝv/ [General-American], /dəˈzɝv/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-deserve.ogg Forms: deserves [present, singular, third-person], deserving [participle, present], deserved [participle, past], deserved [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v Etymology: From Middle English deserven, from Old French deservir, from Latin dēserviō, from dē- + serviō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ser- (guard)}}, {{inh|en|enm|deserven}} Middle English deserven, {{der|en|fro|deservir}} Old French deservir, {{der|en|la|dēserviō}} Latin dēserviō Head templates: {{en-verb}} deserve (third-person singular simple present deserves, present participle deserving, simple past and past participle deserved)
  1. (transitive) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-deserve-en-verb-IVScCdmj
  2. (obsolete) To earn, win. Tags: obsolete Translations (to merit): verdien (Afrikaans), اِسْتَحَقَّ (istaḥaqqa) (Arabic), استحق (istaḥaʔʔ) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), اِسْتاهَل (istaahaal) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), заслу́жваць (zaslúžvacʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), заслуго́ўваць (zasluhóŭvacʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), заслужы́ць (zaslužýcʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), заслужа́вам (zaslužávam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), заслу́жа (zaslúža) [perfective] (Bulgarian), merèixer (Catalan), meritar (Catalan), 值得 (zhíde) (Chinese Mandarin), 應受 /应受 (yīngshòu) (Chinese Mandarin), deservya (Cornish), mirità (Corsican), merità (Corsican), zasloužit [perfective] (Czech), zasloužit si [perfective] (Czech), fortjene (Danish), verdienen (Dutch), meriti (Esperanto), ansaita (Finnish), mériter (French), mertâ (Friulian), merecer (Galician), verdienen (German), αξίζω (axízo) (Greek), érdemel (Hungarian), megérdemel (Hungarian), kiérdemel (Hungarian), megszolgál (Hungarian), rászolgál (Hungarian), eiga skilið (Icelandic), meritare (Italian), meritarsi (Italian), 値する (ataisuru) (alt: あたいする) (Japanese), mereō (Latin), nusipelnyti (Lithuanian), заслужува (zaslužuva) [imperfective] (Macedonian), заслужи (zasluži) [perfective] (Macedonian), ustahiki (Ngazidja Comorian), fortjene (Norwegian Bokmål), fortena (Norwegian Nynorsk), fortene (Norwegian Nynorsk), سزاوار بودن (sazâvâr budan) (Persian), zasługiwać [imperfective] (Polish), zasłużyć [perfective] (Polish), merecer (Portuguese), merita (Romanian), meritar (Romansch), maritar (Romansch), miritar (Romansch), meriter (Romansch), заслу́живать (zaslúživatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), заслужи́ть (zaslužítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), अर्हति (arhati) (Sanskrit), manesci (Sardinian), menèsciri (Sardinian), merèschere (Sardinian), medèsciri (Sardinian), meresci (Sardinian), merèsciri (Sardinian), merèssere (Sardinian), meritai (Sardinian), meritare (Sardinian), заслу́жити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), заврије́дјети [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), завре́дети [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), zaslúžiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zavrijédjeti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zavrédeti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), miritari (Sicilian), zaslúžiť si [perfective] (Slovak), zaslužiti [perfective] (Slovene), merecer (Spanish), meritar (Spanish), ameritar (Spanish), förtjäna (Swedish), అర్హత కలిగి ఉండిన (arhata kaligi uṇḍina) (Telugu), hak etmek (Turkish), заслуго́вувати (zasluhóvuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), заслужи́ти (zaslužýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), meritar (Venetan), xứng đáng (Vietnamese), haeddu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-deserve-en-verb-r16TYWY~ Disambiguation of 'to merit': 8 68 15 9
  3. (obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service. Tags: obsolete
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  4. (obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-deserve-en-verb-ti3o6z5w
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: merit, brook [obsolete], deserve, earn, garner, reap, win, be worthy of Hypernyms: acquire, get, obtain Derived forms: deservant, deserveless, deserver, undeserve, undeserver, well-deserved Related terms: desert, serve someone right, receive

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "This argument deserves a closer examination."
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 11:6:",
          "text": "God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.",
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          "ref": "1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century:",
          "text": "John Gay deserved to be a favourite.",
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          "ref": "1967, The Pacific Reporter, page 510:",
          "text": "the grantees named in the questioned deed executed by their father richly deserved receiving the family home.",
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          "ref": "2008, Michael Walzer, Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality, page 24:",
          "text": "Perhaps they do, but they don't deserve that the rest of us contribute money or appropriate public funds for the purchase of pictures and the construction of buildings.",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "verdien"
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          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "اِسْتَحَقَّ"
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          "sense": "to merit",
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          "sense": "to merit",
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          "roman": "zaslúžvacʹ",
          "sense": "to merit",
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          "roman": "zaslužýcʹ",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zaslužávam",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "заслужа́вам"
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          "roman": "zaslúža",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "заслу́жа"
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          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "merèixer"
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        {
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          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to merit",
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          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhíde",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "值得"
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          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yīngshòu",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "應受 /应受"
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          "lang": "Cornish",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "deservya"
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          "lang": "Corsican",
          "sense": "to merit",
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          "sense": "to merit",
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "zasloužit"
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          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "fortjene"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "verdienen"
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to merit",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "ansaita"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "mériter"
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          "lang": "Friulian",
          "sense": "to merit",
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          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "merecer"
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          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "verdienen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "axízo",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "αξίζω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "érdemel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "megérdemel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "kiérdemel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "megszolgál"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "rászolgál"
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "eiga skilið"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "meritare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "meritarsi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "alt": "あたいする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ataisuru",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "値する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "mereō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "nusipelnyti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zaslužuva",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "заслужува"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zasluži",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "заслужи"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "zdj",
          "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "ustahiki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "fortjene"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "fortena"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "fortene"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "sazâvâr budan",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "word": "سزاوار بودن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 68 15 9",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to merit",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "zasługiwać"
        },
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    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
    "Terms with Sardinian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Sicilian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Telugu translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Venetan translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations"
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    {
      "word": "deservant"
    },
    {
      "word": "deserveless"
    },
    {
      "word": "deserver"
    },
    {
      "word": "undeserve"
    },
    {
      "word": "undeserver"
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    {
      "word": "well-deserved"
    }
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      "name": "root"
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      "name": "inh"
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    }
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "deserving",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "deserved",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "acquire"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "get"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "obtain"
    }
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    "de‧serve"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "desert"
    },
    {
      "word": "serve someone right"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "receive"
    }
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "After playing so well, the team really deserved their win."
        },
        {
          "text": "After what he did, he deserved to go to prison."
        },
        {
          "text": "This argument deserves a closer examination."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 11:6:",
          "text": "God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century:",
          "text": "John Gay deserved to be a favourite.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Pacific Reporter, page 510:",
          "text": "the grantees named in the questioned deed executed by their father richly deserved receiving the family home.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Michael Walzer, Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality, page 24:",
          "text": "Perhaps they do, but they don't deserve that the rest of us contribute money or appropriate public funds for the purchase of pictures and the construction of buildings.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have."
      ],
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        [
          "entitled",
          "entitled"
        ],
        [
          "worthy",
          "worthy"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To earn, win."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "earn",
          "earn"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To earn, win."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXX, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:",
          "text": "Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; / I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! / And raise some special officers of night. / On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To reward, to give in return for service."
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          "reward",
          "reward"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service."
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        "obsolete"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman\nA man that hath / So well deserved me."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To serve; to treat; to benefit."
      ],
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          "serve",
          "serve"
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        [
          "treat",
          "treat"
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          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈzɜːv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈzɝv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈzɝv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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      "word": "merit"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "brook"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "deserve"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "earn"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "garner"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "reap"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "win"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:deserve",
      "word": "be worthy of"
    }
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "verdien"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istaḥaqqa",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "اِسْتَحَقَّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istaḥaʔʔ",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "استحق"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istaahaal",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "اِسْتاهَل"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zaslúžvacʹ",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслу́жваць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zasluhóŭvacʹ",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслуго́ўваць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zaslužýcʹ",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслужы́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaslužávam",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслужа́вам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaslúža",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслу́жа"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merèixer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhíde",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "值得"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yīngshòu",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "應受 /应受"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "deservya"
    },
    {
      "code": "co",
      "lang": "Corsican",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "mirità"
    },
    {
      "code": "co",
      "lang": "Corsican",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merità"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zasloužit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zasloužit si"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "fortjene"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "verdienen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meriti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "ansaita"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "mériter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "mertâ"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "verdienen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "axízo",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "αξίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "érdemel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "megérdemel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "kiérdemel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "megszolgál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "rászolgál"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "eiga skilið"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritarsi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あたいする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ataisuru",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "値する"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "mereō"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "nusipelnyti"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zaslužuva",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслужува"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zasluži",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслужи"
    },
    {
      "code": "zdj",
      "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "ustahiki"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "fortjene"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "fortena"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "fortene"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sazâvâr budan",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "سزاوار بودن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zasługiwać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zasłużyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merita"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "maritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "miritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meriter"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaslúživatʹ",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслу́живать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaslužítʹ",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслужи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "arhati",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "अर्हति"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "manesci"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "menèsciri"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merèschere"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "medèsciri"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meresci"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merèsciri"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merèssere"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "заслу́жити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "заврије́дјети"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "завре́дети"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "zaslúžiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "zavrijédjeti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zavrédeti"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "miritari"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaslúžiť si"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaslužiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "merecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "ameritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "förtjäna"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "arhata kaligi uṇḍina",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "అర్హత కలిగి ఉండిన"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "hak etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zasluhóvuvaty",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслуго́вувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaslužýty",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заслужи́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "meritar"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "xứng đáng"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to merit",
      "word": "haeddu"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Desert (philosophy)"
  ],
  "word": "deserve"
}

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