0 present participle of merit
1 If something merits a particular treatment, it deserves or is considered important enough to be treated in that way:
However, the urgency with which new anti-filarial chemotherapies are needed validates this approach as meriting further investigation.
Secondly, although the book's main theme is the connection between plague-spreaders and witches, other aspects emerge meriting further analysis from a comparative viewpoint.
The stress of losing a spouse may have an independent effect on memory functioning, a theory meriting further investigation.
The scope of their application is, perhaps, most important,24,25 especially with dementia, meriting consideration in more detail.
The scope of their application is, perhaps, most important, 21 especially with dementia, meriting consideration in more detail.
Another central question is whether the newspapers' coverage interpreted these favourable political conditions as meriting the transformation of mobilization into action.
Second by treating particular dimensions as meriting more attention than others.
It is these judgments that draw us to the texts as meriting the attention of scholars of language in society.
