disserve

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISSERVE, verb transitive disserv. [dis and serve.] To injure; to hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief to. He took the first opportunity to disserve him. Too much zeal often disserves a good cause.
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