make

Meaning

1. To create.
2. To create.
3. To create.
4. To create.
5. To create.
6. (colloquial) To behave, to act.
7. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
8. To constitute.
9. To add up to, have a sum of.
10. To interpret.
11. To bring into success.
12. To cause to be.
13. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
14. To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
15. To force to do.
16. To indicate or suggest to be.
17. To cover neatly with bedclothes.
18. (slang) To recognise, identify, spot.
19. (colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
20. (colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
21. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
22. To move at (a speed).
23. To appoint; to name.
24. (slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
25. (colloquial) To defecate or urinate.
26. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
27. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
28. (obsolete) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
29. To enact; to establish.
30. To develop into; to prove to be.
31. To form or formulate in the mind.
32. To perform a feat.
33. To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
34. (obsolete) 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.
35. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
36. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
37. To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
38. To take the virginity of.
39. To have sexual intercourse with.
40. Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.

create

produce

bring into being

ca-ca

take a crap

cause to become

be about

progress to

bring into

move into

prepare for

regard as

come in sight of

make profit

wend

yield

to build

apostatise

bite out

build a house

canalise

change into

consider as

earn money

eke out

fashion model

find time

get dirty

give shape to

grow into

have time

have with one

make ready

prove to be

talk loudly

airt

set ashore

part of that group

-made

bring into existence

cause to be

do properly

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braid rope

build a boat

produce an effect

process and output

make understand

attract by

cause to

kissing noise

travel purposefully

be all about

achieve one’s aim

stumble to flounder

agree sign

earn living

have a slash

go for a slash

address

amount to

be about to

be convenient

comport

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/meɪk/

table From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”). Related to match. cognates * Scots mak (“to make”) * Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”) * West Frisian meitsje (“to make”) * Dutch maken (“to make”) * Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”) * German Low German maken (“to make”) * German machen (“to make, do”) * Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”) * Latin mācerō, macer * Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)