subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
subserved
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past participleof subserve.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof subserve.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
subserveverb (used with object)to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
Example Sentences
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By this means the interests of these railroad managers are subserved in more than one particular.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
These battles he read of every morning subserved no end: the cause stood motionless; only so many blue-coated machines rendered useless: but behind the machines—what?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
No political purpose was to be subserved by this order of the Cincinnati, save in so far as the members pledged to one another their determination to promote and cherish the union between the states.
From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
A dried and even tanned hide, could it have been fitted to her person with sufficient exactness, would have subserved nearly the same purposes.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
The Inquisition exercised a censorship over everything designed for publication, and unless it subserved the interest of that fiendish institution, it was made to do so, or it was suppressed.
From Aztec Land by Maturin Murray Ballou
