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Subserve vs Facilitate - What's the difference?

subserve | facilitate |

As verbs the difference between subserve and facilitate

is that subserve is to serve to promote (an end); to be useful to while facilitate is to make easy or easier.

subserve

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
  • *
  • To assist in carrying out.
  • * Glanvill
  • 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.

    facilitate

    English

    Verb

    (facilitat)
  • To make easy or easier.
  • To help bring about
  • To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)