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Subserve

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To serve to promote (an end); be useful to.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.

v. To assist in carrying out.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

verb-intransitive. To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To serve in subordination; be subservient, useful, or instrumental to; promote: scarcely to be distinguished now from serve.

To avail: used reflexively.

To serve in an inferior capacity; be subservient or subordinate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. be helpful or useful

Word Usage

"Most activities in our life are of this kind; they subserve some purpose which is not a sovereign theme by itself and which cannot, on the strength of its own substance, become the object of a frui proper — of contemplative or self-immersing enjoyment."

Verb Form

subserved subserves subserving

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

help assist aid

Form

subserved subserving

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

promote assist serve aid

Same Context

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