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servir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  • await verb To wait for something or someone, often with a sense of expectation.
  • cater verb To provide food and drink, typically for an event, as a professional service.
  • do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
  • fit adj Physically healthy and in good shape.
  • serve verb To provide help, food, or a service to someone.
  • service noun Work done to help or benefit someone, or the act of providing this.
  • suffice verb To be enough for a purpose or need.
  • wait noun A period spent staying where you are, or delaying action, until something happens.

Senses

servir is used for these senses in English:

  • avail (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
  • await (transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
  • do (ambitransitive) To suffice.
  • do (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  • fit (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
  • serve (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. [from 14th c.]
  • serve (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. [from 16th c.]
  • service (transitive) To serve.

avail — full definition

  1. verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  2. noun Use or benefit, especially in the phrase "to no avail," meaning without success.

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