(v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
(v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
(v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(3) I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special attention.
(4) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(6) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(7) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
(8) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(9) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(10) These findings established that the cellular immunological response can be affected by specific inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis and deserve further consideration both under in vitro and in vivo conditions.
(11) The fact that sulfinate salts show activity, both ip and po, suggests that the -SO2Na moiety deserves more attention in medicinal chemistry.
(12) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(13) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(14) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
(15) In the evolution of inflammatory diseases of adnexae algodysmenorrhea and disturbed menstrual rhythm deserves special attention to the clinical interpretation and to the formation of diagnostic hypothesis.
(16) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
(19) The effect of reversing ventricular hypertrophy in patients with and without coronary disease deserves further study.
(20) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
Voracious
Definition:
(a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(2) The voracious hunger and profuse perspiration were reduced, the patient's serum lipids became normal, her blood glucose fell, and her sensitivity to exogenous insulin increased.
(3) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
(4) Following two centuries of voracious exploitation of every mineral, metal and biological resource, we will soon be facing what Daly calls an "empty world".
(5) At times the arguments and passion displayed were enough to make the hair on the back of any neutral observer's neck stand up on end - it was impossible not to be inspired by people's voracious belief in their school.
(6) For 30 years he has been a voracious buyer of new art and was instrumental in the success of the Young British Artists movement, buying up the best of the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and exhibiting it at the groundbreaking Sensation show at the Royal Academy in 1997.
(7) Savile had a voracious sexual appetite,” Smith writes.
(8) I was a voracious customer of $10 ebooks, as I confessed in 2011 .
(9) Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
(10) And appetite is voracious for a greater understanding of the constitution and how courts can become an activist’s tool, experts say, particularly among activists resisting Trump.
(11) Jeannette Baxter: You admit to being more of a voracious consumer of visual texts than literary ones.
(12) Natural bee keeping as advocated by naturalbeekeepingtrust.org puts the real producers (ie the bees) first rather than voracious consumers.
(13) TAR rats that ate crickets before a cyclophosphamide injection were thereafter voracious predators as were saline-injected and pseudoconditioning controls of both strains.
(14) No consumer of Mafia culture was more voracious than the Mafia themselves.
(15) "Households in the United States and elsewhere propelled the global economy with their voracious appetite for consumption, soaking up imports from countries that relied heavily on exports to grow.
(16) When the concentration of calcium ions in the cerebral ventricles is elevated, a fully satiated rat eats voraciously.
(17) Everyone knows the story of how Liz MacKean , a reporter for BBC Newsnight and her producer, Meirion Jones , found the evidence that Savile was a voracious paedophile and how the BBC stopped them broadcasting.
(18) Peres wrote 11 books, read poetry voraciously, and could quote from Old Testament prophets, French literature and Chinese philosophy with equal ease.
(19) The warning is being sounded over a voracious species called the New Guinea flatworm.
(20) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?