make
/meɪk/ verb A1- To build, construct, produce, or originate. · We made a bird feeder for our yard.· I'll make a man out of him yet.
- To write or compose. · I made a poem for her wedding.· He made a will.
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. · make war· They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food). · I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?
- To behave, to act. · To make like a deer caught in the headlights.· They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To constitute. · They make a cute couple.· This makes the third infraction.
Plural make · He/she/it makes · Past made · Past participle made · -ing form making
Verb forms
- Base form
- make
- He/she/it
- makes
- Past
- made
- Past participle
- made
- -ing form
- making
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- make after To chase.
- make down To rain or snow; to precipitate.
- make into To cause (the first object) to become (the second object)...
- make off To exit or depart; to run away.
- make out To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque).
- make over To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularl...
- make up To constitute, to compose.
From the library
“Thanks—thanks; but, fortunately, I do not want for anything; and it chances that at times there are others who have need of me.” Dantès made a gesture.
He was a man of twenty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to make into a coat-lining.
“Well, then, after this first visit has been made we shall count on you.”
It was worth while, truly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”
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