Word

merit, v.
(merited, meriting, merits)
freq. cnt. 6

be worthy or deserving
<verb.stative> freq. cnt.: 35 freq. cnt.: 29 freq. cnt.: 6

deserve merit

"You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym