transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪzɜ:(r)v ]
( deserves, deserving, deserved)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you say that a person or thing deserves something, you mean that they should have it or receive it because of their actions or qualities.
Government officials clearly deserve some of the blame as well...
These people deserve to make more than the minimum wage...
I felt I deserved better than that...
The Park Hotel has a well-deserved reputation.
VERB : V n , V to-inf , V compar , V-ed
2.
If you say that someone got what they deserved , you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
One of them said the two dead joy riders got what they deserved.
PHRASE [ feelings ]