All make synonyms
make
M m verb make
- turn out β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- carry through β If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
- concoct β If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
- bake β If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.
- rustle up β to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- render β to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
- earn β to gain or get in return for one's labor or service: to earn one's living.
- acquire β If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
- realise β to grasp or understand clearly.
- compel β If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
- amount to β If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.
- pressure β the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- make up β the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- command β If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
- come to β When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
- become β If someone or something becomes a particular thing, they start to change and develop into that thing, or start to develop the characteristics mentioned.
- be β You use be with a present participle to form the continuous tenses of verbs.
- appoint β If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
- elect β Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting.
- designate β When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- instal β to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- manage β to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- fit in β belong
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- achieve β If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- get into β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- succeed β to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
- add up to β If amounts add up to a particular total, they result in that total when they are put together.
- organise β to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- embody β Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).
- dope out β any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- equal β Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value.
- arrive β When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
- estimate β Roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
- infer β to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- gage β a standard of measure or measurement.
- bring in β When a government or organization brings in a new law or system, they introduce it.
- pull down β designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- take in β the act of taking.
- clean up β If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- light out β to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- strike out β to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- take off β the act of taking.
- arrive at β to reach by traveling
- get to β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- set out β to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- bring about β To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- cook up β If someone cooks up a dishonest scheme, they plan it.
- draw on β to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- dream up β a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.