Be to and Serve

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Be to verb - To behave toward in a stated way.

Usage example: you need to be nice to your brother

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Serve and be to are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Serve" instead a verb phrase "Be to".

Serve verb - To behave toward in a stated way.

Usage example: my parents served me well in preparing me for life

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Be to and serve are semantically related. You can use "Be to" instead a verb "Serve".

Nearby Words: service, served, serving

An effective technique would be to use of a decoy of pretending to be too young to serve, and have someone figure that out, and then think they knew your secret.

Source: Suppressed Mammaries
The Marionettes are made to be this by the Stallions in Black and it's pointed out how utterly heartless it'd be to make sapient beings just to serve as lessons for the heroes would really be.

Source: Fanfic / Marionettes
The Nanobots of Jimmy Neutron always refer to Jimmy as "the Creator" rather than by name, and believe that their sole purpose should be to serve him.

Source: Thank the Maker

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