making

From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

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make

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.