subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
were subserving
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past progressiveof subserve.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The soldier might be a roving knight, and the priest a martyr and a saint; but both alike were subserving the interests of that commerce which formed the only solid basis of the colony.
From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
