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verb
  1. 1
    to provide food and drink for someone to eat at a meal

    *Synonyms or related words for this sense of serve*

    To provide food or accommodation: accommodate, serve, cater, feed, nourish, house, support, ply with, take in, lay on... more
    1. a.

      serve

       or

      serve out

       or

      serve up

       to put food onto a plate for someone

      *Synonyms or related words for this sense of serve*

      To provide food or accommodation: accommodate, serve, cater, feed, nourish, house, support, ply with, take in, lay on... more
    2. b.
      to be enough food for a particular number of people

      *Synonyms or related words for this sense of serve*

      To provide food or accommodation: accommodate, serve, cater, feed, nourish, house, support, ply with, take in, lay on... more

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