Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-SERVE'
DIS-SERVE', v.t. [disserv'. dis and serve.]
To injure; to hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief to. He took the first opportunity to disserve him. – Clarendon. Too much zeal often disserves a good cause. – Anon.
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