Anagrams of: DESERVES

• be worthy or deserving

• detached by cutting

• an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• female ruff

• pass a rope through

• pass through a hole or opening

• fasten by passing through a hole or around something

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly

• shift to a clockwise direction

• (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play

• serve a purpose, role, or function

• do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function

• contribute or conduce to

• be used by; as of a utility

• help to some food; help with food or drink

• provide (usually but not necessarily food)

• devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas

• promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to

• spend time in prison or in a labor camp

• work for, or be a servant to

• deliver a warrant or summons to someone

• be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

• do military service

• mate with

• put the ball into play

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• set or keep apart

• cut off from a whole

• literature in metrical form

• a piece of poetry

• a line of metrical text

• compose verses or put into verse

• familiarize through thorough study or experience