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subserve

[ suhb-surv ]

verb (used with object)

, sub·served, sub·serv·ing.
  1. to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.):

    Light exercise subserves digestion.

  2. Obsolete. to serve as a subordinate.


subserve

/ səbˈsɜːv /

verb

  1. to be helpful or useful to
  2. obsolete.
    to be subordinate to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of subserve1

1610–20; < Latin subservīre, equivalent to sub- sub- + servīre to serve
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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.

To those ignorant of letters an inscription would but ill subserve this purpose.

Let it be shown that barbarism ought not to subserve civilization.

It is just that barbarism should subserve civilization; that Wrong should subserve Right.

I answer, that it is right that barbarism should subserve civilization.

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