make
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪk/
ipa: [meɪkʲ]
ipa: [meːk]
ipa: /mɛk/
ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: makes
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form: myek
Etymology: From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”).
Related to match.
Cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
Senses: examples: text: We made a bird feeder for our yard.
text: I'll make a man out of him yet.
text: He makes deodorants.
text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: To create.
To build, construct, produce, or originate.
synonyms: word: fabricate
word: artifice
word: assemble
word: betimber
word: build
word: build up
word: compile
word: construct
word: edify
word: erect
word: extruct
word: fabricate
word: fashion
word: form
word: knock up
word: make
word: manufacture
word: produce
word: put together
word: put up
word: raise
word: rear
word: timber
word: upbuild
examples: text: I made a poem for her wedding.
text: He made a will.
glosses: To create.
To write or compose.
examples: text: make war
text: They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
glosses: To create.
To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
examples: text: God made earth and heaven.
text: Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute;
⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
Is on the skull which thou hast made.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Prologue”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To create.
To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
qualifier: religious
examples: text: I'm making cereal for breakfast. Who wants some?
glosses: To create.
To prepare (food); to cook (food).
examples: text: To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
text: They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
text: He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
glosses: To behave, to act.
examples: text: And all Israel's language about this power, except that it makes for righteousness, is approximate language
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma:
text: Follow after the things which make for peace.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 14:19:
text: Considerations infinite
 Do make against it.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
examples: text: They make a cute couple.
text: This makes the third infraction.
text: One swallow does not a summer make.
text: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Style alone does not make a writer.
ref: 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46
text: So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, what makes a great primary school.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To constitute.
examples: text: Two and four make six.
glosses: To add up to, have a sum of.
examples: text: I don’t know what to make of it.
text: They couldn't make anything of the inscription.
text: What time do you make it?
qualifier: typically interrogative
glosses: To interpret.
raw_tags: construed with of
examples: text: This company is what made you.
text: She married into wealth and so has it made.
text: who makes or ruins with a smile or frown
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: A great expression and amazing eye contact, in particular, can make a photograph, and without them, you can end up with very little.
ref: 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: To bring into success.
examples: text: The blisters on my foot made it a problem to walk without a cane.
text: The citizens made their objections clear.
text: This might make you a bit woozy.
text: Did I make myself heard?
text: Scotch will make you a man.
text: Mom made it clear what she expected from me in college.
text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: render
qualifier: second object is an adjective or participle
glosses: To cause to be.
examples: text: Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.
text: 1709–1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
He is not that goose and Ass that Valla would make him.
text: So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
examples: text: You're making her cry.
text: I was made to feel like a criminal.
text: In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: second object is a verb
glosses: To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
examples: text: The teacher made the student study harder.
text: Don’t let them make you suffer.
qualifier: second object is a verb; can be stressed for emphasis or clarity; second object is a verb; can be stressed for emphasis or clarity
glosses: To force to do.
examples: text: His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
glosses: To indicate or suggest to be.
raw_tags: of a fact
glosses: To cover neatly with bedclothes.
raw_tags: of a bed
examples: text: I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 33:
text: Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.
ref: 2004, George Nolfi et al., Ocean's Twelve, Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30
text: David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. (rounds a corner, almost collides into Kaleed Asan) Damn, that was close.
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.
ref: 2007 May 4, Andrew Dettmann et al., "Under Pressure", episode 3-22 of Numb3rs, 00:01:16
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: word: twig
word: notice
word: clock
word: ID
word: identify
word: ken
word: to make someone
word: notice
word: recognize
word: twig
qualifier: crime
glosses: To recognise, identify, spot.
examples: text: We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
text: I won't be able to make dinner; something's come up at work.
text: They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
examples: text: They made westward over the snowy mountains.
text: Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
text: They made away from the fire toward the river.
text: As the guard's whistle shrilled the "right away," I made to join my companions in the train, but with a smile the driver, whose name was Abdul, bade me take the fireman's seat.
ref: 1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
glosses: To proceed (in a direction).
examples: text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: I made over twenty miles that day, for I was now hardened to fatigue and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable time hunting and exploring in the immediate vicinity of camp.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
examples: text: The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
text: This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
glosses: To move at (a speed).
examples: text: On November 15, 1396,[…]Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;
ref: 1991, Bernard Guenée, Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates, →ISBN:
glosses: To appoint; to name.
examples: text: Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.
Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?
ref: 1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas:
glosses: To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
examples: text: When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he has made in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls.
ref: 1992, Merrill Joan Gerber, The kingdom of Brooklyn, page 30:
text: "He made in his pants, okay? I hope everybody's satisfied!" She flung her hat on the floor and kicked it. "He'll never come back to school now! Never! And it's all your fault!
ref: 2003, Mary Anne Kelly, The Cordelia Squad, page 121:
glosses: To defecate or urinate.
examples: text: They hope to make a bigger profit.
text: He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
text: She made ten points in that game.
text: Wales' defence had an unfamiliar look with Cardiff youngster Darcy Blake preferred to 44-cap Danny Gabbidon of Queen's Park Rangers, who did not even make the bench.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
text: Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (classic): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
examples: text: Whether, […], the construction of additional roads […] would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.
ref: 1889 May 1, Chief Justice George P. Raney, Pensacola & A. R. Co. v. State of Florida (judicial opinion), reproduced in The Southern Reporter, Volume 5, West Publishing Company, p.843
text: At first glance, you may be able to make rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you still make rent?
ref: 2005, Yuvi Shmul, Ron Peltier, Make It Big with Yuvi: How to Buy Or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 67:
text: So you can’t make payroll. This happens.[…]many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of not making payroll.
ref: 2011, Donald Todrin, Successfully Navigating the Downturn, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
examples: ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
to solace him some time, as I do when I make
glosses: To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
examples: text: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
ref: 1791, The First Amendment to the United States Constitution
glosses: To enact; to establish.
examples: text: She'll make a fine president.
glosses: To develop into; to prove to be.
examples: text: make plans
text: made a questionable decision
glosses: To form or formulate in the mind.
examples: text: make a leap
text: make a pass
text: make a u-turn
text: Say, you know? I knew I should have made a left toin at Albuquerque.
ref: 1945 January 13, Herr Meets Hare, spoken by Bugs Bunny:
glosses: To perform a feat.
examples: text: In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.
glosses: To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
examples: text: a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: 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.
glosses: To increase; to augment; to accrue.
examples: text: Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To be engaged or concerned in.
examples: text: Footman. Madam! Mr. Dorimant!
Lov. What makes him here?
ref: 1676, George Etherege, A Man of Mode:
text: What makes her in the wood so late,
 A furlong from the castle gate?
ref: 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel:
glosses: To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
examples: text: I was a young un at 'Oogli,
Shy as a girl to begin;
Aggie de Castrer she made me,
— An' Aggie was clever as sin;
Older than me, but my first un —
More like a mother she were
Showed me the way to promotion an' pay,
An' I learned about women from 'er!
ref: 1896, Rudyard Kipling, The Ladies:
glosses: To take the virginity of.
examples: text: He could see that her face was thin, proud. She looked like she'd be a hard dame to make. He didn't want just that. She'd be a hard dame to win.
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 16, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
text: The boys in the lower classes who had already dropped out of school derived much of their prestige among their peers from their skill in “making” girls.
ref: 1959, Vance Packard, The Status Seekers, Pocket Books, published 1971, →ISBN, page 138:
text: The only thing she wants to make is you!
ref: 1979, Mark Tuttle, “The Loan Shark”, in Three's Company, season 4, episode 10 (television production):
text: Monday night, I'm makin' Jen
 Tuesday night, I'm makin' Lyn
 Wednesday night, I'm makin' Catherine
 Oh, why can't I be makin' love come true?
ref: 1996, Rivers Cuomo, “Tired of Sex”, in Pinkerton, performed by Weezer:
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
examples: text: The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for us was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
glosses: Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
Derived terms: bad facts make bad law
beauty won't make the pot boil
cannot make it
clothes don't make the man
clothes make the man
demake
doctors make the worst patients
don't get your honey where you make your money
don't make me laugh
empty barrels make the most noise
empty cans make the most noise
empty vessels make the most noise
empty vessels make the most sound
enough to make a cat laugh
enough to make the angels weep
fine feathers make fine birds
foremake
good fences make good neighbors
good fences make good neighbours
handmake
hard cases make bad law
how the sausage is made
if I may make so bold
it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
it takes all kinds to make a world
it takes all sorts to make a world
it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
it takes two to make a quarrel
know how many beans make five
lawmaking
Mackem
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
mackly
makable
make a better door than a window
make a big thing out of
makeability
makeable
make a book
make a break for it
make a career of
make a case
make a case for
make a cat laugh
make a clean breast
make a day of it
make a deal
make a decision
make a dent
make a difference
make a dollar out of fifteen cents
make a face
make a federal case out of something
make a fist of
make a fool of
make a fool out of
make a fortune
make after
make a fuss
make against
make a good fist of
make a go of
make a habit of
make a hash of
make-ahead
make a joke of
make a killing
make a leg
make a light
make a lip
make a living
make all the difference
make all the running
make a long arm
make a mark
make a meal of
make a meal out of
make amends
make a mistake
make a mockery of
make a monkey of
make a monkey out of
make a mountain out of a molehill
make a move
make a muscle
make a name for oneself
make an appearance
make an ass of
make-and-break
make an effort
make an entrance
make an errand
make an example of
make an exception
make an exhibition of oneself
make an honest woman
make an honest woman out of
make a night of it
make an impression
make an offer
make a noise in the world
make a nuisance of oneself
make a pass
make a pig of oneself
make a pig out of oneself
make a pig's ear of
make a pile
make a play
make a point
make a production out of
make a promise
make a public spectacle of oneself
make a rabbit bite a bulldog
make a run for it
make a scene
make a show of oneself
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
make a spectacle of oneself
make a splash
make a stand
make a statement
make a stick for one's own back
make a stink
make a time
make a Virginia fence
make a virtue of necessity
make away
makeaway
make away with
make a wish
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
make baby Jesus cry
make bank
makebate
make beautiful music together
make-before-break
make belief
make believe
make-believe
make biscuits
make bold
make book
make both ends meet
make bricks without straw
make bricks without straws
make capital out of
make certain
make common cause
make conscience
make contact with
make conversation
make-debate
make default
make do
makedom
make down
make due
make ends meet
make every effort
make eyes
make faces
make fair weather
make fast
makefast
make fetch happen
make file
make fish of one and flesh of another
make fish of one and fowl of another
make flexible
make for
make foul water
make-fray
make free of
make free with
make friendly
make friends
make fun of
makegame
make game of
make garden
make good
makegood
make good on
make good one's running
make good time
make ground
make happen
make hard work of
make haste
make hay
make hay while the sun shines
make head against
make head nor tail of
make head or tail of
make headway
make heavy going of
make heavy weather
make heavy weather of
make history
make interesting
make into
make it
make it count
make it do or do without
make it interesting
make it make sense
make it one's business
make it one's life
make it rain
make it snappy
make it so
make it so that
make-king
make known
make land
make landfall
make lemonade
makeless
make light of
make light work of
make like
make like a baby and head out
make like a banana and split
make like a tree
make like a tree and leave
makeline
make little of
make love
make love to the camera
make matters worse
make me
make mention
make mention of
make merry
make mileage out of
make mincemeat of
make mincemeat out of
make moan
make mockery of
make money
make mouths
make much
make muffins
make music
make neither head nor tail of
make news
make nice
make no bones about
make noise
make noises
make no mistake
make no odds
make no secret of
make nothing of
make of
make off
make off with
make old bones
make one
make one's bed
make one's bed and lie in it
make one's bones
make one's bow
make oneself at home
make oneself clear
make oneself scarce
make one's entrance
make one's exit
make one's hand
make one's manners
make one's mark
make one's number
make one's own
make one's own luck
make one's presence felt
make one's toenails curl
make one's toes curl
make one's toilet
make one's way
make-or-break
make or break
make out
make out like a bandit
make out of
make out with
make over
makepeace
make peace
make pigs and whistles of
make pigs and whistles of something
make position
make pretend
make quick work of
make-ready
make right
make room
make sail
make semblant
make sense
makeshift
make shift
make ship
make shit of
make shit shake
make short work of
make some noise
make someone hard to catch
make someone's acquaintance
make someone's blood boil
make someone's blood run cold
make someone's day
make someone's ears sad
make someone's flesh crawl
make someone's flesh creep
make someone's hair curl
make someone's hair stand on end
make someone's head spin
make someone's jaw drop
make someone's skin crawl
make someone's skin creep
make someone's teeth itch
make someone's toenails curl
make someone's toes curl
make something of
make something of oneself
makespan
make-sport
make sport of
make strange
make streaks
make strides
makestrife
make sure
make terms
make the angels blush
make the bald man cry
make the bed
make the best of
make the best of a bad bargain
make the best of a bad job
make the best of one's way
make the blood run cold
make the case for
make the cheese more binding
make the cut
make the difference
make the dust fly
make the feathers fly
make the first move
make the fur fly
make the grade
make the headlines
make the most of
make the news
make the passes
make the perfect the enemy of the good
make the riffle
make the road shorter
make the rounds
make the running
make the weather
make the welkin ring
make the world go around
make the world go round
make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
make things interesting
make this world go around
make this world go round
make tick
make time
make time with
make to order
make to stock
make tracks
make tracks for
make trial of
make up
make up to
make use
make vintage
make water
make waves
make way
makeweight
make whole
make whoopee
make with
make-work
make wudu
make yourself at home
make yourselves at home
many a mickle makes a muckle
many hands make light work
matchless
matchmake
meddle and make
meddle nor make
meddle or make
mismake
newmake
new-make
not make any bones about
one swallow does not a spring make
one swallow does not make a spring
one swallow does not make a summer
one swallow doesn't a spring make
one swallow doesn't a summer make
one swallow doesn't make a spring
one swallow doesn't make a summer
overmake
premake
put two and two together and make five
remake
short accounts make long friends
short reckonings make long friends
stuff dreams are made of
tailor-make
tailor make
the cowl does not make the monk
time to make the donuts
troublemaker
two wrongs don't make a right
two wrongs make a right
unmake
unmakeable
upmake
ve haf vays of making you talk
wanton kittens make sober cats
we all make mistakes
what do you make the time
what time do you make it
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
you make the bed you lie in
you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette