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(verb) act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" |
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Related Words: act, behave, do |
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(verb) eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" |
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Synonyms: make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee |
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Related Words: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass, stale, wet |
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(verb) behave in a certain way; "make merry" |
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Related Words: act, behave, do |
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(verb) give certain properties to something; "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 famous physicist"; "Make yourself clear" |
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Synonyms: get |
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Related Words: alter, change, get, have, leave, let, render |
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(verb) put in order or neaten: "make the bed"; "make up a room" |
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Synonyms: make up |
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Related Words: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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(verb) develop into: "He will make a splendid father!" |
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Related Words: develop, grow |
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(verb) change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks" |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) favor the development of; "Practice makes the winner" |
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Related Words: develop |
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(verb) cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; "make my day" |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet" |
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Related Words: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) consider as being; "It wasn't the problem some people made it" |
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Related Words: consider, reckon, regard, see, view |
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(verb) pretend to be; imitate; "She makes like an actress" |
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Related Words: ape, copy, imitate |
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(verb) assure the success of; "A good review by this critic will make your play!" |
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Related Words: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure, secure |
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Antonyms: break |
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(verb) make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
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Synonyms: create |
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Related Words: actualize, arouse, assemble, bear, beat, beget, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring up, build, call down, call forth, cause, choreograph, clear, cleave, compose, conjure, conjure up, construct, copy, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, create mentally, create verbally, cut, cut out, derive, direct, distil, distill, do, educe, elicit, engender, enkindle, establish, evoke, extract, father, film, film-make, fire, foam, form, froth, generate, get, give, give rise, incorporate, initiate, institute, invoke, kindle, lay down, make, make for, mother, multiply, organize, originate, piece, play, prepare, press, procreate, produce, provoke, puncture, put forward, put on, put together, raise, re-create, realize, regenerate, reproduce, scrape, set up, short, short-circuit, sire, spume, start, stir, strike, style, suds, track, turn in, turn out, work, wreak, write, yield |
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(verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; Heat makes you sweat" |
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Related Words: cause, do, drive, make |
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(verb) make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones" |
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Related Words: compile, compose, construct, cooper, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, fabricate, fashion, forge, manufacture |
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(verb) gather and light the materials for: "make a fire" |
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Related Words: create from raw material, create from raw stuff |
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(verb) perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call" |
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Related Words: do, execute, pay, perform |
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(verb) reach in time; "We barely made the plane" |
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Related Words: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make, reach |
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(verb) appear to begin an activity; "He made to speak but said nothing i the end"; "She made a if to say hello to us" |
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Related Words: appear, look, seem |
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(verb) engage in: "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" |
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Synonyms: do |
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Related Words: exaggerate, overdo |
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(verb) carry out or commit; "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas" |
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Related Words: commit, perpetrate, pull |
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(verb) form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"; "The branches made a roof" |
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Related Words: assemble, gather, get together |
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(verb) constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man" |
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Related Words: be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
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(verb) amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living" |
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Related Words: amount |
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(verb) be or be capable of being changed or made into; "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father" |
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Related Words: become |
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(verb) add up to; "four and four make eight" |
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Related Words: add up, amount, come, number, total |
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(verb) be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture" |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?" |
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Synonyms: draw |
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Related Words: create by mental act, create mentally |
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(verb) create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" |
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Synonyms: do |
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Related Words: create, make |
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Antonyms: unmake |
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(verb) create or manufacture a man-made product: "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
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Synonyms: create, produce |
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Related Words: bootleg, breed, churn out, clap together, clap up, confect, custom-make, customize, cut, dummy, dummy up, elaborate, extrude, fudge together, generate, give, laminate, machine, make over, output, overproduce, preassemble, prefabricate, print, proof, publish, pulsate, pulse, put out, redo, refashion, remake, render, reproduce, return, slap together, smelt, squeeze out, tailor1-make, throw together, turn out, yield |
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(verb) create by artistic means; "create a poem; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" |
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Synonyms: create |
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Related Words: create, design, do, make, make |
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(verb) reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!" "She may not make the grade" |
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Synonyms: get to, progress to, reach |
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Related Words: accomplish, achieve, attain, reach |
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(verb) head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" |
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Synonyms: take |
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Related Words: head |
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(noun) a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?" |
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Synonyms: brand |
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Related Words: form, kind, sort, variety |
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(noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
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Synonyms: shuffle, shuffling |
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Related Words: reordering, reshuffle, reshuffling, riffle |
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(verb) institute, enact, or establish; "make laws" |
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Synonyms: establish, lay down |
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Related Words: create, make, mark, set |
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(verb) succeed in seducing; young men's slang; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?" "Harry made Sally" |
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Synonyms: score, seduce |
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Related Words: persuade |
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(verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" |
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Synonyms: cause, do |
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Related Words: breed, bring about, call forth, create, determine, effect, effectuate, engender, evoke, force, impel, incite, influence, initiate, kick up, make, make, motivate, move, occasion, pioneer, prompt, propel, provoke, regulate, set up, shape, spawn |
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(verb) make by combining materials and parts: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" |
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Synonyms: build, construct |
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Related Words: cantilever, corduroy, create, customise, customize, erect, frame up, frames, groin, make, put up, raise, rear, rebuild, reconstruct, set up, wattle |
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(verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
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Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, reach |
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Related Words: access, bottom out, breast, catch up, come through, culminate, find, get at, get through, ground, make, peak, reach a peak, run aground, scale, surmount |
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(verb) achieve a point or goal, as in a sport; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" |
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Synonyms: get, have |
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Related Words: hit, rack up, score, tally |
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(verb) charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club" |
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Synonyms: name, nominate |
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Related Words: appoint, charge, rename |
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(verb) to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" |
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Synonyms: constitute, form |
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Related Words: add, be, chelate, comprise, conglobate, conglobe, constellate, constitute, make up, represent |
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(verb) prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?" "fix breakfast for the guests, please" |
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Synonyms: cook, fix, prepare, ready |
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Related Words: concoct, cook up, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, devil, lard, precook, put on, whip up, whomp up |
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(verb) organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception," "have, throw, or make a party", "give a course", etc. |
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Synonyms: give, have, hold, throw |
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Related Words: direct |
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(verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "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" |
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Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, pull in, realize, take in |
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Related Words: acquire, bear, bring home, eke out, get, gross, pay, profit, rake in, rake off, shovel in, squeeze out, take home, yield |
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(verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner: "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" |
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Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, stimulate |
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Related Words: bring, compel, decide, encourage, inspire, instigate, lead, let, obligate, oblige, persuade, prompt |
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(verb) have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" |
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Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, shit, take a crap, take a shit |
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Related Words: dung, egest, eliminate, excrete, pass |
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