sub|serve

sub|serve
sub|serve «suhb SURV», transitive verb, -served, -serv|ing.
to help or assist (as a purpose, action, or function): »

Chewing food well subserves digestion. Liberty is to be subserved whatever occurs (Walt Whitman). When words no longer subserve thought but are granted a value of their own equal to that of thought itself, the mediocre mind is sorely tempted to use them, to the detriment of constructive thinking (Atlantic).

[< Latin subservīre < sub- under + servīre serve]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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