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makeverb to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materialswill you help me make the dough for the cookies? fabricate, fashion, form, frame, manufacture, produce assemble, build, construct, erect, make up, put up, raise, rear, set up, structure, throw upcraft, handcrafthewforge, mold, shapecobble (together or up), knock out, patch (together), throw upprefabricatecreate, invent, mint, originateestablish, father, institute, organizeconcoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up)conceive, envisage, picture, visualizerefashion, remake, remanufacture put together disassemble, dismantle, take apartbreak up, dismemberabolish, annihilate, demolish, destroy, devastate, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, flatten, pulverize, raze, ruin, shatter, smash, wreckblow up, explode to obtain (as a goal) through effortwe finally made it! achieve, attain, bag, chalk up, clock (up)(chiefly British), gain, hit, log, notch (up), rack up, ring up, score, win acquire, capture, carry, draw, garner, get, land, obtain, procure, realize, secureamount (to), approach, equal, match, measure up (to), meet, rival, tie, touchbeat, excel, outdo, surpass, top fall short (of), missfail (at)lose to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, induce, invoke, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield conduce (to), contribute (to)decide, determinebegin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, startadvance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promoteenact, render, turn out bring forth, give rise to impede, limit, restrictclamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppressarrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retardcan(slang), kill, snuff (out), stillabolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench to carry through (as a process) to completionone person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry off, carry out, commit, compass, do, execute, follow through (with), fulfill(or fulfil), negotiate, perform, perpetrate, prosecute, pull off, put through bring about, effect, effectuate, implementace, nailengage (in), practice(also practise)work (at)reduplicate, reenact, repeatactualize, attain, realizecomplete, end, finish, wind up go through failskimp, slight, slur to cause (a person) to give in to pressuremade him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around blackjack, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, drive, force, impel, impress, muscle, obligate, oblige, press, pressure, sandbag browbeat, bulldoze, bully, cow, hector, intimidateblackmail, high-pressure, menace, shame, terrorize, threatendragbadger, harass, hound twist one's arm allow, let, permitargue, convince, induce, move, persuade, prevail (on or upon), satisfy, talk (into), win (over) to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurementI make that to be about six feet long calculate, call, conjecture, estimate, figure, gauge(also gage), guess, judge, place, put, reckon, suppose conclude, deduce, extrapolate, gather, infer, reason, understand calibrate, measure, scalecompute, work out to form by putting together parts or materialsmake a model airplane assemble, build, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shapeprefabricatebegin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originateconstitute, establish, father, found, institute, organizeconceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up)reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify(British), retrofitjerry-build, rig (up), throw upcombine, unite put together demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreckblow up, explodedetach, disengagedisconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate to give the impression of beingthe family made merry despite their financial worries act, appear, come across (as), come off (as), feel, look, seem, sound dissemble, pretendrecall, resemble, suggesthint, imply, insinuate to go on a specified course or in a certain directionthe baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug bear, head aim, bend, direct, point, turnbeeline, light out, put, put out, set off, set out, strike, take offface, orient, steerabout-face, back, come about, come round, cut, incline, put about, reverse, swerve, tack, turn back, veer, wheel, yaw to put into effect through legislative or authoritative actionthe legislature failed to make any new laws last session constitute, enact, lay down, legislate, ordain, pass reenact, repassbring about, effectallow, authorize, permit, sanctiondecree, dictate, proclaimadminister, executeapprove, confirm, ratify repeal, rescind, revoke abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, invalidate, kill, nullifyoverturn, reverse, void to receive as return for effortI make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here acquire, attain, bag, bring in, capture, carry, come by, draw, earn, gain, garner, get, knock down, land, obtain, procure, pull down, realize, reap, secure, win clear, gross, netaccomplish, achieve, notch (up), scoreaccumulate, amass, rack upcatch, pick upannex, occupy, take overreacquire, reattain, recapture, regain, remake forfeit, lose accord, give, grant, paygive up, hand over, part (with), relinquish, surrender, yield to have a clear idea ofwhat do you make of the latest information? appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton (to or on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understand absorb, digest, take inrealizefathom, penetrate, pierce pick up on miss misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand chiefly dialectto position (something) so as to prevent passage through an openingmake the gate when ye leave close, shut, steek(chiefly Scottish) bar, batten (down), bolt, chain, fasten, latch, lockplug, seal, stoppersecurebang, clap, slam open unbar, unbolt, unchain, unfasten, unlatch, unlock, unseal before the 12th century |