subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
subserves
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present tense formof subserve (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If translated to humans, these findings have important implications for understanding how the hippocampus subserves various cognitive functions that rely on it, such as episodic memory, navigation and imagination.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2013
It simply subserves, extends, illuminates and liberates Shakespeare's poem.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they answer that, so far from this, it subserves, illustrates, protects the doctrine of our Lord's loving kindness and mediation.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Literature and Science, thus considered, nearly constitute the subject-matter of Liberal Education; and, while Science is made to subserve the former of the two injuries, which Revealed Truth sustains,—its exclusion, Literature subserves the latter,—its corruption.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
Here, only, does language attain to that specialization of parts where each element subserves its own purpose and no other, and here only does it correspond with clear and connected thinking.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
