Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To treat badly; harm.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To serve or treat badly; injure; do an ill turn to.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To treat poorly; to do a disservice to

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ serve

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