Meaning

3 senses

  1. To be subservient to.

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

    be helpful or useful

  3. To assist in carrying out.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. An enormous number of things in the world subserve a common purpose.

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Origin

Borrowed from Latin subservire; by surface analysis, sub- + serve.

Borrowed from Latin subservire; by surface analysis, sub- + serve.

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Forms

subserves, subserving, subserved, subserved
Base formsubserve · to subserve
3rd person singularsubserves
Present participlesubserving
Past simplesubserved
Past participlesubserved

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysubserve
he, she, itsubserves

Past simpleLesson

all personssubserved

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill subserve

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsubservientsubservience

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
subscriptionsubsequentsubsequentlysubservientsubsideB2subsidiary
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