transitive verb. To serve to promote (an end); be useful to.

To serve in subordination; be subservient, useful, or instrumental to; promote: scarcely to be distinguished now from serve.

To avail: used reflexively.

To serve in an inferior capacity; be subservient or subordinate.

intransitive verb. To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.

transitive verb. To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

verb. To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.

verb. To assist in carrying out.

verb. be helpful or useful

"Most activities in our life are of this kind; they subserve some purpose which is not a sovereign theme by itself and which cannot, on the strength of its own substance, become the object of a frui proper — of contemplative or self-immersing enjoyment."

subservient  

subserved  subserving  

aid  assist  help  

alloying  comminution  fuzing  misadjustment  piano-player  

act for  advance  aid  assist  assist  

subserved  subserves  subserving