deserve

/dɪˈzɜːv/ verb [T]

Translation

› If you deserve something good or bad, it should happen to you because of the way you have behaved.

haketmek, layık olmak

The school deserves praise for the way it has raised standards. [+ to do sth] He deserves to be locked up for life.2158

deservedly adverb ›

hakketmiş olarak

The film deservedly won an Oscar.

(Definition of deserve verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

real or true

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