deserv'd

Verb

deserve (third-person singular simple present deserves, present participle deserving, simple past and past participle deserved)

1. (transitive) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
   • After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.
2. (obsolete) To earn, win.
   • That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.
   • Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXX, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII
4. (obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
   • A man that hath / So well deserved me.c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman