served

verb

past tense of serve
1
as in attended
to be a servant for he served his master faithfully for 20 years

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2
as in sufficed
to be enough they made the pasta serve for eight guests

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3
as in suited
to be fitting or proper those old riding boots will serve for now, but you'll need newer ones for the horse show

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4
as in treated
to behave toward in a stated way my parents served me well in preparing me for life

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as in acted
to have a certain purpose the harsh punishment served to teach everyone a lesson

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as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable an excellent college that served her with the skills necessary to make it in today's job market

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Recent Examples of served Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda are said to have attended at least a few of these parties, contributing to rumors that Lewis and the estate served as at least partial inspiration for the novel. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 El-Sayed, who trained as a doctor and served as Detroit’s top public health official, has campaigned on Medicare for All since his unsuccessful bid for governor in 2018. — Kate Wells, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 According to Freeman’s, the shells belonged to Robert Merriam, who served as alderman of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, where Abercrombie lived and worked. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Children are also allowed to visit breweries and wineries, as long as food is served on the premises. — Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Davis, who was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, is a former longtime state lawmaker who also served as Idaho Senate majority Leader. — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 7 Oct. 2026 Prior to joining Nirvana Brands this year, Budge was a senior vice president and general manager at Morphe’s former parent company, Forma Brands, and before that served as CEO at Omorovicza Cosmetics. — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026 Henriette Reker, who served two terms as the mayor of Cologne, Germany, until last year, survived an assassination attempt, in 2015, by a far-right assailant angry about migration. — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026 Related Stories Lynch has served as CEO of Condé Nast since 2019, leading the publishing and media company through a period of major disruption. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for served
  1. attended
  2. sufficed
  3. suited
  4. treated
  5. acted
  6. benefited
  7. did
  8. handled
Verb
  • Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev attended a ceremony at Thessaloniki's Museum of Byzantine Civilization, where the remains were kept, before the handover.
    — COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • About 285,000 attended last year, making the United States the festival’s largest source of overseas visitors.
    — Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of attended
Verb
  • For players 20 and older, a full season in the AHL sufficed to accrue a professional season.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • For most, this would have sufficed for nautical recreation.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
Definition of sufficed
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  • That her means of exit is abandoning her newborn twins is less than sympathetic, but in a different era Cathy would have options beyond a domesticity that never suited her in the first place.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The company or role may have changed, or the person’s strengths may be better suited to another environment.
    — Michael Londgren, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of suited
Verb
  • Staffers also expressed concerns about fiscal implications if bedbugs would come home with workers and require them to pay for their homes to be treated.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Palestinians are also clear that any near-term solution must include a credible route to independent statehood; a Palestinian state must not be treated as a possible reward at the end of a long and uncertain path.
    — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of treated
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  • Appearing alongside Fry are Elfman, Beach, Jessica Sula, Maria Zhang and Luke Kleintank, the latter of whom also acted in Bones, though his time on that show did not overlap with Fry.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Her breakdancing and pop-and-lock dancing background also played a role throughout the show, as her moves alongside her all-male dancing troupe acted as an additional instrument.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of acted
Verb
  • At the global scale, AI has benefited from decades of climate and weather records covering the entire Earth.
    — Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In the San Francisco area, even as tech companies have benefited from hundreds of billions of dollars in AI investments, major companies such as Google, Salesforce and Facebook owner Meta have cut staff.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of benefited
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  • Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials.
    — Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Wisconsin Republicans did the same last year, and similar efforts have been raised in other states.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Definition of did
Verb
  • The paperwork is handled well, the farewell party is arranged, gifts are presented and everyone assumes that whatever needed to be passed to the next person has already been passed.
    — Vikas Arora, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The student who spoke with campus police criticized how the department handled the matter.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of handled

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“Served.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/served. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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