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View synonyms for subserve
subserve
[ suhb-surv ]
verb (used with object)
, sub·served, sub·serv·ing.
- to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.):
Light exercise subserves digestion.
- Obsolete. to serve as a subordinate.
subserve
/ səbˈsɜːv /
verb
- to be helpful or useful to
- obsolete.to be subordinate to
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of subserve1
C17: from Latin subservīre to be subject to, from sub- + servīre to serve
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Example Sentences
If it wasn't because I wish to observe and subserve to the law of the land, I would have killed him long ago.
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To those ignorant of letters an inscription would but ill subserve this purpose.
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Let it be shown that barbarism ought not to subserve civilization.
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It is just that barbarism should subserve civilization; that Wrong should subserve Right.
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I answer, that it is right that barbarism should subserve civilization.
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