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The Meaning of make
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(n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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(v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.
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(v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.
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(v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.
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(v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.
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(v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.
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(v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.
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(v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
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(v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.
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(v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.
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(v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.
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(v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
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(v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.
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(v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.
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(v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in.
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(v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.
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(v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.
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(v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
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(v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
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(v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
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(v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
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(n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
Synonyms
stigma
,
shuffle
,
brand
,
marque
,
trade name
,
brand name
,
firebrand
,
steel
,
shuffling
,
blade
,
stain
,
mark
,
sword
,
shambling
,
shamble
,
wee-wee
,
take
,
micturate
,
suffice
,
construct
,
draw
,
cook
,
have
,
lay down
,
piddle
,
hold
,
piss
,
act
,
constitute
,
do
,
reach
,
earn
,
make believe
,
get to
,
shit
,
defecate
,
get along
,
arrange
,
name
,
pass water
,
practice
,
execute
,
stimulate
,
behave
,
progress to
,
create
,
crap
,
practise
,
take a shit
,
pretend
,
make water
,
gain
,
dress
,
ready
,
serve
,
establish
,
realize
,
make out
,
coiffure
,
make up
,
give
,
attain
,
pull in
,
set
,
induce
,
form
,
pee
,
wee
,
ca-ca
,
get
,
prepare
,
coiffe
,
perform
,
score
,
build
,
coif
,
throw
,
arrive at
,
pee-pee
,
relieve oneself
,
spend a penny
,
take in
,
puddle
,
take a crap
,
clear
,
hit
,
produce
,
exercise
,
answer
,
nominate
,
come
,
bring in
,
take a leak
,
cause
,
urinate
,
fare
,
manage
,
work
,
fix
,
realise
,
stool
,
seduce
,
bring forth
,
mystify
,
experience
,
develop
,
stupefy
,
become
,
sustain
,
receive
,
scram
,
commence
,
go
,
sire
,
drive
,
engender
,
stick
,
set about
,
father
,
fuck off
,
incur
,
contract
,
grow
,
pay back
,
dumbfound
,
beat
,
start
,
set out
,
bring
,
bewilder
,
mother
,
buzz off
,
catch
,
let
,
obtain
,
beget
,
puzzle
,
flummox
,
generate
,
find
,
amaze
,
vex
,
start out
,
convey
,
capture
,
aim
,
perplex
,
arrest
,
gravel
,
begin
,
fetch
,
suffer
,
get under one's skin
,
get down
,
arrive
,
acquire
,
pay off
,
pose
,
bugger off
,
nonplus
,
baffle
,
provoke
,
consume
,
hasten
,
deliver
,
excite
,
induct
,
birth
,
accept
,
shake
,
perk up
,
feature
,
rush
,
arouse
,
have got
,
give birth
,
bring on
,
stir
,
bear
,
energise
,
energize
,
own
,
brace
,
possess
,
ingest
,
shake up
,
bring out
,
farm
,
give rise
,
raise
,
bring about
,
withdraw
,
run
,
suck
,
absorb
,
cast
,
pull
,
draw and quarter
,
reap
,
draw in
,
get out
,
pull back
,
disembowel
,
take up
,
sop up
,
take out
,
eviscerate
,
delineate
,
quarter
,
pull out
,
describe
,
puff
,
thread
,
soak up
,
drag
,
attract
,
force
,
trace
,
imbibe
,
tie
,
draw off
,
pass
,
line
,
suck up
,
string
,
guide
,
depict
,
top
,
light up
,
recognise
,
solve
,
overhear
,
sack
,
cod
,
unclutter
,
agnize
,
clear up
,
invite
,
garner
,
actualize
,
exculpate
,
assimilate
,
sort out
,
crystalise
,
actualise
,
exonerate
,
gull
,
make headway
,
crystalize
,
collect
,
fool
,
authorize
,
assoil
,
adopt
,
gather
,
understand
,
crystallise
,
straighten out
,
discharge
,
introduce
,
see
,
derive
,
befool
,
benefit
,
net
,
acquit
,
substantiate
,
pull ahead
,
recognize
,
suck in
,
agnise
,
watch
,
advance
,
profit
,
get ahead
,
illuminate
,
view
,
sack up
,
dupe
,
brighten
,
put on
,
elucidate
,
gather in
,
enlighten
,
slang
,
gain ground
,
crystallize
,
move in
,
authorise
,
get in
,
win
,
put one across
,
put one over
,
shed light on
,
organise
,
institute
,
mold
,
spring
,
comprise
,
mould
,
found
,
imprint
,
be
,
plant
,
take shape
,
shape
,
forge
,
represent
,
appoint
,
organize
,
take form
,
get at
,
contact
,
devil
,
hand
,
annoy
,
strive
,
nark
,
extend to
,
rag
,
get through
,
accomplish
,
nettle
,
strain
,
turn over
,
bother
,
reach out
,
irritate
,
achieve
,
rile
,
touch
,
get hold of
,
chafe
,
pass on
,
build up
,
ramp up
,
progress
,
fabricate
,
retrace
,
reconstruct
,
manufacture
,
work up
,
key out
,
refer
,
distinguish
,
discover
,
diagnose
,
bring up
,
advert
,
list
,
propose
,
identify
,
put forward
,
cite
,
mention
,
put up
,
call
,
key
,
chance on
,
come upon
,
chance upon
,
polish off
,
run into
,
remove
,
light upon
,
collide with
,
off
,
strike
,
dispatch
,
bump off
,
murder
,
come across
,
stumble
,
shoot
,
slay
,
tally
,
impinge on
,
pip
,
fall upon
,
rack up
,
come to
,
happen upon
,
demonstrate
,
launch
,
install
,
set up
,
shew
,
show
,
base
,
ground
,
prove
,
instal
,
render
,
move over
,
hold in
,
restrain
,
afford
,
dedicate
,
devote
,
cave in
,
confuse
,
accommodate
,
defy
,
shake off
,
sacrifice
,
maintain
,
entertain
,
confine
,
drop
,
contain
,
book
,
shed
,
thrust
,
moderate
,
founder
,
present
,
concur
,
open
,
keep
,
guard
,
bind
,
hold back
,
yield
,
bedevil
,
check
,
return
,
hurl
,
project
,
pay
,
throw off
,
keep back
,
go for
,
fuddle
,
gift
,
ease up
,
kick in
,
support
,
harbor
,
break
,
impart
,
apply
,
contrive
,
fall in
,
take for
,
fox
,
confound
,
hold up
,
agree
,
concord
,
cast off
,
declare
,
adjudge
,
feed
,
nurse
,
grant
,
withstand
,
bemuse
,
oblige
,
admit
,
defend
,
harbour
,
give way
,
contribute
,
deem
,
befuddle
,
chip in
,
switch
,
view as
,
flip
,
retain
,
reserve
,
halt
,
carry
,
collapse
,
obligate
,
discombobulate
,
commit
,
consecrate
,
prevail
,
control
,
throw away
,
leave
,
take hold
,
curb
,
catch up with
,
even out
,
even off
,
reconcile
,
compensate
,
correct
,
patch up
,
even up
,
cook up
,
invent
,
settle
,
counterbalance
,
conciliate
,
require
,
read
,
occupy
,
subscribe to
,
lead
,
take on
,
assume
,
choose
,
study
,
learn
,
fill
,
necessitate
,
hire
,
consider
,
need
,
rent
,
pick out
,
deal
,
film
,
demand
,
lease
,
take aim
,
train
,
use up
,
select
,
engage
,
claim
,
exact
,
take away
,
pack
,
call for
,
submit
,
direct
,
charter
,
subscribe
,
involve
,
look at
,
postulate
,
ask
,
conduct
,
betray
,
stag
,
tiller
,
snitch
,
give away
,
grass
,
shop
,
denounce
,
tell on
,
rat
,
wreak
,
operate
,
function
,
act upon
,
crop
,
do work
,
process
,
ferment
,
knead
,
play
,
exploit
,
cultivate
,
figure out
,
work out
,
lick
,
turn
,
influence
,
put to work
,
puzzle out
,
work on
,
sour
,
make for
,
desexualise
,
restore
,
doctor
,
mend
,
desex
,
fudge
,
posit
,
falsify
,
fixate
,
define
,
specify
,
bushel
,
sterilise
,
unsex
,
touch on
,
gear up
,
limit
,
fake
,
deposit
,
furbish up
,
machinate
,
repair
,
secure
,
situate
,
sterilize
,
devise
,
misrepresent
,
determine
,
groom
,
educate
,
manipulate
,
fasten
,
desexualize
,
get up
,
wangle
,
nock
,
grade
,
dissemble
,
hazard
,
venture
,
affect
,
sham
,
guess
,
feign
,
profess
,
addle
,
wanton
,
trifle
,
piddle away
,
wanton away
,
muddle
,
compel
,
coerce
,
constrain
Antonyms
unmake
,
undo
,
break
Rhymes
ache
,
ake
,
awake
,
backache
,
bake
,
beefsteak
,
bellyache
,
betake
,
blake
,
brake
,
break
,
caique
,
cake
,
cheesecake
,
crake
,
cupcake
,
dake
,
daybreak
,
drake
,
earthquake
,
fake
,
flake
,
forsake
,
fruitcake
,
haick
,
haik
,
hake
,
handshake
,
headache
,
heartache
,
heartbreak
,
hotcake
,
intake
,
jacque
,
jake
,
keepsake
,
kittiwake
,
lake
,
mandrake
,
milkshake
,
mistake
,
muckrake
,
naik
,
namesake
,
opaque
,
outbreak
,
outtake
,
overtake
,
paik
,
pake
,
pancake
,
partake
,
plake
,
quake
,
rake
,
rattlesnake
,
remake
,
retake
,
sake
,
schlake
,
schnake
,
schwake
,
shaik
,
shaikh
,
shake
,
shortcake
,
shrake
,
slake
,
snake
,
snowflake
,
spake
,
stake
,
steak
,
strake
,
sweepstake
,
take
,
undertake
,
uptake
,
wake
,
yake