Play and Serve

Play

Play verb - To engage in activity for amusement.

Serve and play are semantically related in behave topic. In some cases you can use "Serve" instead a verb "Play", when it comes to topics like create, do.

Serve

Serve verb - To be a servant for.

Play and serve are semantically related in aid topic. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead a verb "Serve", if it concerns topics such as behave, create, do.

Nearby Words: service, served, serving

Common collocations

role play role serve role
kind play kind serve kind
god play god serve god
time play time serve time
Other words: way, roles.

Both words in one sentence

  • Tabletop Game / Arkham Horror Blight: These characters have gone mad from the play and serve as anti-allies to hinder you.
  • Video Game / Enter the Matrix The Brute: Vlad note  If you play as Niobe and Cujo note  If you play as Ghost serve as this to the Merovingian.
  • In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Bass is scarily good at lying to serve his own ends and can play Wily like a fiddle.
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