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
Now, not all desires are religious; and the question, which is purely a question of fact, arises whether the desires which fetichism subserves are religious.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Mild benediction waves his saintly arm— So, good! but what we want’s a perfect man, Complete and all alive: half travertine Half suits our need, and ill subserves our plan.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
