verb
- Engage in.
- usage: "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution"
- Give certain properties to something.
- usage: "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"
- Make or cause to be or to become.
- usage: "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
- Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.
- usage: "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
- Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.
- usage: "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
- Create or manufacture a man-made product.
- usage: "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
- Make, formulate, or derive in the mind.
- usage: "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks"
- Compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way.
- usage: "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law"; "Heat makes you sweat"
- synonyms: make
- Create by artistic means.
- usage: "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
- Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages.
- usage: "How much do you make a month in your new job"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5, 000 each month"
- Create or design, often in a certain way.
- usage: "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
- (v.) ()
- synonyms: form, constitute, make
- (v.) ()
- synonyms: reach, make, get to, progress to
- Be or be capable of being changed or made into.
- usage: "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father"
- synonyms: make
- Make by shaping or bringing together constituents.
- usage: "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
- synonyms: make
- Perform or carry out.
- usage: "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call"
- synonyms: make
- Make by combining materials and parts.
- usage: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
- Change from one form into another.
- usage: "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
- synonyms: make
- Act in a certain way so as to acquire.
- usage: "make friends"; "make enemies"
- synonyms: make
- Charge with a function; charge to be.
- usage: "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club"
- Achieve a point or goal.
- usage: "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"
- Reach a destination, either real or abstract.
- usage: "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
- Institute, enact, or establish.
- usage: "make laws"
- Carry out or commit.
- usage: "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas"
- synonyms: make
- Form by assembling individuals or constituents.
- usage: "Make a quorum"
- synonyms: make
- Organize or be responsible for.
- usage: "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
- Put in order or neaten.
- usage: "make the bed"; "make up a room"
- Head into a specified direction.
- usage: "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"
- Have a bowel movement.
- usage: "The dog had made in the flower beds"
- synonyms: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make
- Undergo fabrication or creation.
- usage: "This wool makes into a nice sweater"
- synonyms: make
- Be suitable for.
- usage: "Wood makes good furniture"
- synonyms: make
- Add up to.
- usage: "four and four make eight"
- synonyms: make
- Amount to.
- usage: "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living"
- synonyms: make
- Constitute the essence of.
- usage: "Clothes make the man"
- synonyms: make
- Appear to begin an activity.
- usage: "He made to speak but said nothing in the end"; "She made as if to say hello to us"
- synonyms: make
- Proceed along a path.
- usage: "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"
- Reach in time.
- usage: "We barely made the plane"
- synonyms: make
- Gather and light the materials for.
- usage: "make a fire"
- synonyms: make
- Prepare for eating by applying heat.
- usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
- Induce to have sex.
- usage: "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night"; "Harry made Sally"
- Assure the success of.
- usage: "A good review by this critic will make your play"
- synonyms: make
- Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like.
- usage: "She makes like an actress"
- synonyms: make, pretend, make believe
- Consider as being.
- usage: "It wasn't the problem some people made it"
- synonyms: make
- Calculate as being.
- usage: "I make the height about 100 feet"
- synonyms: make
- Cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable.
- usage: "make my day"
- synonyms: make
- Favor the development of.
- usage: "Practice makes the winner"
- synonyms: make
- Develop into.
- usage: "He will make a splendid father"
- synonyms: make
- Behave in a certain way.
- usage: "make merry"
- synonyms: make
- Eliminate urine.
- usage: "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
- synonyms: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
adjective
- Produced by a manufacturing process.
- usage: "bought some made goods at the local store; rope and nails"
- Of a bed. ( having the sheets and blankets set in order)
- usage: "a neatly made bed"
- Successful or assured of success. "now I am a made man forever- Christopher Marlowe
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