deserve

1. (transitive) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.Examples: "After playing so well, the team really deserved their win."; "After what he did, he deserved to go to prison."; "We don't think your article deserves reading."transitive

2. (obsolete) To earn, win.Examples: "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."obsolete

3. (obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.Examples: "Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte"; "Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; / I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! / And raise some special officers of night. / On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains."obsolete

4. (obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit.Examples: "c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman A man that hath / So well deserved me."obsolete