to merit is a form of:
Merit
noun
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- (the quality of deserving to be praised, excellence, a feature or quality that deserves praise, something deserving reward, praise, etc., a mark badge, etc. awarded for excellence. pl. (merits) essential rightness or wrongness) promotion by merit គុណសម្បត្ដិ, accumulation of merit បុណ្យ, កុសល
Example: The merits of the scheme are quite obvious. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ភាពល្អត្រឹមត្រូវ
verb — past tense: merited ; past participle: merited ; present participle: meriting ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To deserve) សមនឹងបាន, សមនឹងទទួល
Example: Danais essay has many merits and few faults, Dangers work merits the highest praise.
Example: I think the suggestion merits consideration.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
- 2.
- Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
- 3.
- Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
verb — past tense: merited ; past participle: merited ; present participle: meriting ;
- 1.
- To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
- 1.
- credit, desert, due, effectiveness, efficacy, excellence, goodness, integrity, morality, probity, rectitude, value, virtue, worth
- 2.
- achieve, acquire, attain, deserve, earn, gain, get, justify, obtain, rate, warrant, win
- 1.
- corruption, fault, lewdness, sin, vice
- 2.
- consume, forfeit, lose, spend, waste
- 1.
- To reward