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What is the verb for subservient?

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subserviate
subserve
  1. To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
  2. To assist in carrying out.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The changes are not only in brain regions controlling attention, but also in regions that subserve impulse control.”
      “There were higher crimes they might attain to, and grander interests they might subserve.”
      “He would be expected to subserve American interests in return.”
subserviates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subserviate
subserves
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subserve
  2. Examples:
    1. “The magnitude code also subserves numeral-size judgments and thereby provides an estimate of problem-size in the context of arithmetic.”
      “In butterflies there is no frenulum, but a costal outgrowth of the 466 hindwing subserves the same function.”
      “We can unambiguously conclude that there is a situation in which voluntarily oriented attention subserves feature integration when tested with multiple search items.”
subserveth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subserve
subserviated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of subserviate
subservest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of subserve
subserved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of subserve
  2. Examples:
    1. “The effects of brain trauma often relate to functions subserved by the specific area of brain damage.”
      “In saying this, I mean that we take into consideration the interests that are subserved by practices of epistemic assessment.”
      “He resumed his reading and docketing, by the light of the little lamp which had just subserved the purposes of a spy.”
subserviating
  1. present participle of subserviate
subserving
  1. present participle of subserve
  2. Examples:
    1. “Crustacean motor neurons subserving locomotion are specialized for the type of activity in which they normally participate.”
      “Thus his adhesion to the doctrine of the class war involves his opposition to all measures subserving the interest of any section of capitalism.”
      “Cytoskeletal organization and reorganization also plays a prominent role as scaffolding for proteins subserving membrane excitability.”
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