Meaning

1 senses

  1. To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.

Examples

13 sentences

  1. You're doing us a great disservice.

    honestlang · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. He has done him a disservice.

    deDer hat ihm einen Bärendienst erwiesen. — sigfrido

    sundown · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. Sheltering kids does them a disservice.

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC0 · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  4. Dan is doing a disservice to the community.

    ruДэн оказывает медвежью услугу населению. — whatnot

    Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  5. I think they did you a great disservice.

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC0 · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Forms

disservices, disservicing, disserviced, disserviced
Base formdisservice · to disservice
3rd person singulardisservices
Present participledisservicing
Past simpledisserviced
Past participledisserviced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydisservice
he, she, itdisservices

Past simpleLesson

all personsdisserviced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave disserviced
he, she, ithas disserviced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill disservice

Word family

1 related words
Relateddisserve

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dissentdissenterdissertationdissidentB2dissimilar

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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