Definition of deserve

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Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

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Wrong :: Wrong (v. t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure..
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved..
Worthily :: Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert..
Desertlessly :: Desertlessly (adv.) Undeservedly.
Meritedly :: Meritedly (adv.) By merit; deservedly.
Respectability :: Respectability (n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
At :: At (prep.) The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands..
Meed :: Meed (v. t.) To deserve; to merit.
Undeserve :: Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.
Reverence :: Reverence (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels..
Deservedly :: Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Brook :: Brook (v. t.) To deserve; to earn.
Condign :: Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
Demerit :: Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Deserver :: Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
Belong :: Belong (v. t.) To be deserved by.
Satire :: Satire (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal..
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