make : Idioms & Phrases

• the bittern. Prov.

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• adjective satellite made as part of the arts-and-crafts program at summer camp
  
  • my camp-made leather wallet

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• noun an item made to the customer's specifications
  custom-built.
  
• adjective made according to the specifications of an individual
  custom.
  

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• verb make to specifications
  customize; custom-make; customise.
  
  • I had this desk custom-made for me

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• noun the cognitive process of reaching a decision
  deciding.
  
  • a good executive must be good at decision making

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• adjective satellite highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
  epochal.
  
  • epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill
  • an epoch-making discovery

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• adjective produced in quantity at a factory
  

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• noun the production of movies
  moviemaking; film making.
  

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• verb make films; be a film maker
  

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• noun the act or art of making handmade lace
  tatting.
  

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• (Scots Law), the uttering of lies or libels upon the personal character of the sovereign, his court, or his family.

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• to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak.

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Love"-mak`ing noun

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1. Courtship. Bacon.

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• adjective made by machine
  

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• adjective satellite built for a particular individual
  custom-built.
  
• adjective satellite (of clothing) custom-made
  made-to-order; tailored; bespoken; bespoke.
  

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• adjective satellite having been paved
  

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• verb admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
  fess up; own up.
  
  • the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting

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• verb contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
  pull a face; grimace.
  
  • He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do

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• verb propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting
  move.
  

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• verb make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally
  make a point.
  

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• verb take strong and forceful action, as to object or express discontent
  raise hell; raise a stink.
  
  • She raised hell when she found out that she wold not be hired again

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• verb begin or appear to begin an action
  
  • He made as if to shake my hand

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• verb represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
  make; pretend.
  
  • She makes like an actress

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• verb take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
  presume; dare.
  
  • How dare you call my lawyer?

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• verb make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
  clean.
  
  • Clean the stove!
  • The dentist cleaned my teeth

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• verb come to terms with
  contend; deal; cope; manage; get by; grapple; make do.
  
  • We got by on just a gallon of gas
  • They made do on half a loaf of bread every day

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• verb cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
  bring; play; work; wreak.
  
  • I cannot work a miracle
  • wreak havoc
  • bring comments
  • play a joke
  • The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area

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• verb make full, also in a metaphorical sense
  fill up; fill.
  
  • fill a container
  • fill the child with pride

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• verb subject to laughter or ridicule
  laugh at; ridicule; blackguard; poke fun; roast; guy; rib; jest at.
  
  • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
  • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
  • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

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• verb act as promised
  
  • make good on promises

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• verb cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
  develop.
  
  • The perfect climate here develops the grain
  • He developed a new kind of apple

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• verb celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
  jollify; make merry; revel; whoop it up; wassail; racket; make happy.
  
  • The members of the wedding party made merry all night
  • Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

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• verb turn to one's advantage
  
  • The environmentalist lobby made hay of the nuclear plant accident

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• verb obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
  advance; gain ground; get ahead; win; gain; pull ahead.
  
  • The home team was gaining ground
  • After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference

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• verb continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
  survive; pull round; come through; pull through.
  
  • He survived the cancer against all odds
• verb succeed in a big way; get to the top
  get in; arrive; go far.
  
  • After he published his book, he had arrived
  • I don't know whether I can make it in science!
  • You will go far, my boy!
• verb go successfully through a test or a selection process
  pass.
  
  • She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now

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• verb have sexual intercourse with
  love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
  
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?

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• verb celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
  jollify; make merry; revel; whoop it up; wassail; racket; make happy.
  
  • The members of the wedding party made merry all night
  • Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

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• verb acknowledge freely and openly
  
  • He makes no bones about the fact that he is gay

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• verb emit a noise
  noise; resound.
  

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• verb run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
  abscond; absquatulate; decamp; bolt; go off; run off.
  
  • The thief made off with our silver
  • the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe

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• verb detect with the senses
  recognize; spot; tell apart; recognise; distinguish; pick out; discern.
  
  • The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
  • I can't make out the faces in this photograph
• verb make out and issue
  cut; issue; write out.
  
  • write out a check
  • cut a ticket
  • Please make the check out to me
• verb comprehend
  
  • I cannot make out what this politician is saying
• verb proceed or get along
  fare; do; come; get along.
  
  • How is she doing in her new job?
  • How are you making out in graduate school?
  • He's come a long way
• verb come to terms with
  contend; deal; cope; manage; get by; grapple; make do.
  
  • We got by on just a gallon of gas
  • They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
• verb have sexual intercourse with
  love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
  
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?
• verb kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
  neck.
  
  • The couple were necking in the back seat of the car
• verb write all the required information onto a form
  fill in; fill out; complete.
  
  • fill out this questionnaire, please!
  • make out a form
• verb imply or suggest
  
  • Your remarks make me out to be stupid
• verb try to establish
  
  • She made out that she know nothing about the crime

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• verb use again in altered form
  rework; retread.
  
  • retread an old plot
• verb make new
  refashion; redo; remake.
  
  • She is remaking her image

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• verb cause to pass
  pass.
  
  • She passed around the plates

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• verb end hostilities
  
  • The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally made peace

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• verb remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
  purify; sublimate; distill.
  
  • purify the water

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• verb cause to feel relaxed
  unwind; relax; unlax; loosen up; unstrain.
  
  • A hot bath always relaxes me

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• verb be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
  add up.
  

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• verb make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally
  make a point.
  

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• verb make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
  save.
  
  • This will save money
  • I'll save you the trouble
  • This will save you a lot of time

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• verb form or compose
  constitute; represent; be; comprise.
  
  • This money is my only income
  • The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance
  • These constitute my entire belonging
  • The children made up the chorus
  • This sum represents my entire income for a year
  • These few men comprise his entire army
• verb devise or compose
  
  • This designer makes up our Spring collections
• verb do or give something to somebody in return
  pay; compensate; pay off.
  
  • Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
• verb make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
  catch up with.
  
  • I have to make up a French exam
  • Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?
• verb make up something artificial or untrue
  fabricate; manufacture; cook up; invent.
  
• verb put in order or neaten
  make.
  
  • make the bed
  • make up a room
• verb adjust for
  even off; compensate; counterbalance; even out; even up; correct.
  
  • engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
• verb come to terms
  patch up; settle; reconcile; conciliate.
  
  • After some discussion we finally made up
• verb apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
  
  • She makes herself up every morning

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• verb reach, make, or come to a decision about something
  determine; decide.
  
  • We finally decided after lengthy deliberations

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• verb indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats
  purr.
  

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• verb eliminate urine
  wee-wee; spend a penny; wee; piddle; micturate; pee-pee; make; pass water; relieve oneself; take a leak; pee; urinate; puddle; piss.
  
  • Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

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• verb get out of the way
  
  • make way for the President's motorcade

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• verb celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
  jollify; make merry; revel; whoop it up; wassail; racket; make happy.
  
  • The members of the wedding party made merry all night
  • Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

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Make"-be*lief` noun

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1. A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

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• noun imaginative intellectual play
  pretence; pretense.
  
• noun the enactment of a pretense
  pretend.
  
  • it was just pretend
• adjective satellite imagined as in a play
  pretend.
  
  • the make-believe world of theater
  • play money
  • dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish

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Make"-be*lieve` noun

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1. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor.

   To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

Make"-be*lieve` adjective

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1. Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." imaginary G. Eliot.

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• noun something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
  stopgap; makeshift.
  

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Make"-game` noun

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1. An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

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• noun someone who tries to bring peace
  peacemaker; conciliator; reconciler; pacifier.
  

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Make"-peace` noun

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1. A peacemaker. R. Shak.

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• noun an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
  makeup.
  
  • he missed the test and had to take a makeup
  • the two teams played a makeup one week later
• noun the way in which someone or something is composed
  physical composition; makeup; constitution; composition.
  
• noun cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
  makeup; war paint.
  

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Make"-up` noun

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1. The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.

   The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

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• noun active work of little value
  busywork.
  
  • while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork

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• noun a speech act that conveys information
  informing.
  

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• noun sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
  love life; love; lovemaking; sexual love.
  
  • his lovemaking disgusted her
  • he hadn't had any love in months
  • he has a very complicated love life

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• noun a euphemism for urination
  passing water; leak; wetting.
  
  • he had to take a leak

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Mak"ing-i`ron noun

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1. A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

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Mak"ing-up` noun

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1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.

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• adjective satellite not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
  synthetic; semisynthetic.
  
  • man-made fibers
  • synthetic leather

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• noun fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes
  synthetic fiber.
  

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• noun lake used to store water for community use
  artificial lake; reservoir.
  

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• noun reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
  rascality; mischief; mischievousness; roguishness; roguery; devilment; deviltry; shenanigan; devilry.
  

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Mis"chief-mak`ing adjective

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1. Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n. The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

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Mon"ey-mak`ing noun

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1. The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.

   Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.

Mon"ey-mak`ing adjective

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1. Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business.
2. Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money-making man.

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Mouth"-made` adjective

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1. Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.

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• noun the production of movies
  moviemaking; film making.
  

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• adjective satellite newly made
  
  • the aroma of new-made bread

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• adjective satellite not commercially motivated
  nonprofit.
  

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• bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. Low, U. S.

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• noun the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods
  photomechanics.
  
  • photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing

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• adjective satellite concerned with policy, not administration
  

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• adjective satellite designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose
  purpose-built.
  

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• noun a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase
  
  • their apartment was furnished with ready-mades
• adjective made for purchase and immediate use
  
• adjective satellite repeated regularly without thought or originality
  cliched.
  
  • ready-made phrases
• adjective satellite commercially produced; not homemade
  
  • ready-made clothes

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Read"y-made` adjective

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1. Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

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• adjective satellite having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts
  
  • a self-made millionaire

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Self"-made` adjective

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1. Made by one's self.

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• a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talentss or energies.

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• noun an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
  slave-maker.
  

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• noun custom-made clothing
  
• adjective satellite (of clothing) custom-made
  made-to-order; tailored; bespoken; bespoke.
  

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• verb create (clothes) with cloth
  sew; tailor.
  
  • Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?
• verb make to specifications
  customize; custom-make; customise.
  
  • I had this desk custom-made for me

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• to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. Colloq.

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• to be propitious to; to be gracious to.

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• accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position.

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• to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order.
• to prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order a bed and its bedding.

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• (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses.

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• (Card Playing), to take a trick with it.

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• to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

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• to go around; to go a roundabout way.

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• to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession.

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• to make a determined onset, literally or figuratively.

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• to distort the countenance; to make a grimace. Shak.

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• to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. Colloq.

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• (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward.

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• (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

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• . (a) To take some action . (b) To move a piece, as in a game.

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• to attach special importance to.

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• to halt for the purpose of offering resistance to a pursuing enemy.

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• to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. Obs.

  s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton.

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• to esteem; to regard.
• to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty.

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• to do or say something very foolish or absurd.

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• (Print.), to omit something, in setting or correcting type, which was in the copy.

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• to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.).

  Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Josh. viii. 15.

  My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. Latimer.

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• to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack.

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• . (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy . Obs.

  If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.

  (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. Obs. Waller.

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• . (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate . (c) To kill; to destroy.
• . (a) To kill or destroy. (b) To carry off.

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• to pretend; to feign; to simulate.

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• to take the liberty; to venture.
• to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.

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• to live within one's income. Fuller.

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• to take by way of preference; to choose.

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• to join with in purposes and aims.
• to join or ally one's self with.

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• to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.

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• to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. Obs.

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• to make experiment. Obs. Beau. & Fl.

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• (Law), to fail to appear or answer.

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• to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets = skipping stones ; hence:

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• to flatter; to give flattering representations. R.

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• to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

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• (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.

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• to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.

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• to take liberties with; to help one's self to. Colloq.

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• to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. "Having now made friends with the Athenians." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

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• to make sport of; to mock.

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• to fulfill; to establish; to maintain; to supply (a defect or deficiency); to indemmify; to prove or verify (an accusation); to prove to be blameless; to clear; to vindicate.

  Each word made good and true. Shak.

  Of no power to make his wishes good. Shak.

  I . . . would by combat make her good. Shak.

  Convenient numbers to make good the city. Shak.

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• (Naut.), to endure a gale well or ill; said of a vessel. Shak.

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• to hasten.

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• to make headway.

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• to resist with success; to advance.

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• . (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it . Shak. (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. Obs. Chaucer.

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• to make it a matter of difficulty; to make it a hard matter. Obs.

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• to make it a matter of deliberation. Obs. " We thought it was not worth to make it wise." Chaucer.

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• (Naut.), to sight land.

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• to treat as of little consequence; to slight; to disregard.

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• . (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily.

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• to express affection for; to woo. "If you will marry, make your loves to me." Shak.

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• to cure meat in the open air. Colloq. Western U. S.

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• to feast; to be joyful or jovial.
• to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth. Judg. ix. 27.

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• to do mischief, especially by exciting quarrels.

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• to gain or acquire money or property; to make a profit in dealings.

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• to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly.
• to treat as something of especial value or worth.

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• to be scrupulous about. Obs.

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• to make no scruple; not to hesitate. Low

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• to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference.

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• to have no doubt.

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• to have no weight or importance; to make no difference.

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• . (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important . "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts." Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.

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• (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law.

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• . (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account .

  "Makes she no more of me than of a slave." Dryden.

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• to go away suddenly.

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• to show one respect; to praise one in a flattering way. Locke.

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• to offer formal courtesias to.

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• to choose.

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• to gain advantage or profit.

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• (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge.

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• to make a bow or courtesy; to offer salutation.

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• . (a) To sign, as a letter or other writing, by making a cross or other mark. (b) To make a distinct or lasting impression on the public mind, or on affairs; to gain distinction.

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• to reconcile one with, to plead one's cause with, or to become reconciled with, another. "I will make your peace with him." Shak.

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• to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.

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• to decamp; to depart. Slang

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• to make one's meaning clear.

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• to advance in life by one's personal efforts.

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• . (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case . (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money.
• to succeed; to be able at last; to make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties.

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• to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee.

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• to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

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• to capture. Hawthorne.

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• to make preparation; to get in readiness.

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• to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room.

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• (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of sail.
• . (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended . (b) To set sail.

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• to hesitate from conscientious motives; to scruple. Locke.

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• to contrive or manage in an exigency. "I shall make shift to go without him." Shak.

  [They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland. Milton.

• to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. Colloq..

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• to embark in a ship or other vessel.

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• to tack frequently.

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• to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward.

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• to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion.

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• . (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment . (b) To assume the character of a stranger . Gen. xlii. 7.

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• to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court.

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• . (a) To make certain; to secure so that there can be no failure of the purpose or object. "Make Cato sure." Addison. "A peace can not fail, provided we make sure of Spain." Sir W. Temple. (b) To betroth. Obs.

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• to come to terms; to make an agreement: to agree.

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• . (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

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• (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack.

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• to shut the door. Obs.

  Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. Shak.

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• to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.

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• . (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time.

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• . (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel . (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum . (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story.

  He was all made up of love and charms! Addison.

  (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts . (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up.
• to become reconciled or friendly.

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• to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision.

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• to compensate for; to supply an equivalent for.

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• to reach a mental determination; to resolve.
• to come to an opinion or decision; to determine.

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• . (a) To approach; as, a suspicious boat made up to us. (b) To pay addresses to; to make love to.

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• to become reconciled to. Colloq.

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• to employ; to derive service from; to use.

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• . (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate .
• . (a) To pass urine. Swift. (b) (Naut.) To admit water; to leak.

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• . See under Make, v. t.

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• . (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way .

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• to make away with. See under Away. Archaic

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• to concur or agree with. Hooker.

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• to multiply words.

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• to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. Archaic

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• adjective satellite skillfully constructed
  

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• noun the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine
  winemaking.
  

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