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subserve

/suhb-surv/US // səbˈsɜrv //UK // (səbˈsɜːv) //

代为服务,代管,代办,代行

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·served, sub·serv·ing.

    • : to be useful or instrumental in promoting: Light exercise subserves digestion.
    • : Obsolete. to serve as a subordinate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • If it wasn't because I wish to observe and subserve to the law of the land, I would have killed him long ago.

  • To those ignorant of letters an inscription would but ill subserve this purpose.

  • Let it be shown that barbarism ought not to subserve civilization.

  • It is just that barbarism should subserve civilization; that Wrong should subserve Right.

  • I answer, that it is right that barbarism should subserve civilization.