Definizione monolingua

deserve

deserve (third-person singular simple present deserves, present participle deserving, simple past and past participle deserved)

1. To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.

   After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.

   After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.

   This argument deserves a closer examination.

2. (obsolete) To earn, win.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.

3. (obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:

     ‘Grauntemercy,’ seyde the Kynge. ‘And I lyve, Sir Lambegus, I shall deserve hit.’

Definizione dizionario deserve

	meritare
	to merit

	meritarsi
	to merit

guadagnare

Altri significati:

(obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.

(obsolete) To earn, win.

To earn or merit a reward.

To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.