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What is the verb for servanting?

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serve

(personal) To provide a service.

(transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity. [from 12th c.]
(transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by. [from 13th c.]
(transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc. [from 13th c.]
(intransitive) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service. [from 14th c.]
(transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person. [from 15th c.]

(transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner. [from 13th c.]
(transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. [from 14th c.]
To be effective.

(transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else. [from 14th c.]

(transitive, law) To deliver a document.

To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.). [from 15th c.]
To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)

(transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. [from 16th c.]
(transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. [from 16th c.]
(intransitive) To be in military service. [from 16th c.]
(transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon). [from 18th c.]
(transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). [from 19th c.]
(nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
To perform a public obligation.
Synonyms:

distribute, supply, deliver, provide, present, deal, give, provision, purvey, oblige, dish out, dish up, give out, minister, nurse, ladle out, plate up, set out, dole out, hand out, make available, serve up, spoon out, hand round, scoop, ladle, spoon, lade, dip, bucket, scoop out, bail out, dollop, spoon over, complete, perform, do, fulfil, observe, pass, spend, work, act, discharge, accept, fulfill, function, labor, labour, carry out … more

Examples:

“The crowds continued to pour in, and we continued to serve them drinks throughout the night.”

“He would serve three years in prison for his crime.”

“This old, rusty pan should serve for frying our eggs this morning.”

serving

present participle of serve
Synonyms:

servant

(obsolete) To subject.

serves

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of serve
Synonyms:

provides, brings, contributes, delivers, supplies, gives, presents, arranges, caters, imparts, offers, produces, transfers, yields, accords, confers, dispenses, hands over, proffers, provisions, kicks in, lays on, bestows, chips in, grants, replenishes, bears, passes, benefits, aids, assists, advances, improves, promotes, advantages, betters, contributes to, favors, profits, ameliorates, builds, enhances, furthers, helps, boosts, favours, fosters, relieves, strengthens, succors … more

serveth

(archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of serve
Examples:

“It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.”

“The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.”

“I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.”

servanted

simple past tense and past participle of servant

servest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of serve

servedst

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of serve

served

simple past tense and past participle of serve
Synonyms:

Examples:

“The Middle Passage served not only to erase a slave’s sense of human dignity, but the journey also wiped away the collective knowledge and cultural history of those captured.”

“But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story.”

“Fandom as a whole would be better served by having separate LoTR, HP, and bandfic archives, for a start.”

servanting

present participle of servant

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