subserve

To serve to promote (an end); be useful to.

To serve in subordination; be subservient, useful, or instrumental to; promote: scarcely to be distinguished now from serve.

To avail: used reflexively.

To serve in an inferior capacity; be subservient or subordinate.

To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.

To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.

To assist in carrying out.

be helpful or useful