make

make [-s, -th, made, making, mak'st] v

OE.

1. Create; form; cause to exist.
2. Construct; frame; fashion; constitute; form of materials.
3. Cause to be; cause to become; have oneself to be.
4. Prepare; organize; get ready; put into suitable form.
5. Cure; harvest; reap; prepare for preservation; cut, stack, and dry for future use.
6. Perform; accomplish; execute; participate in.
7. Change to; transform into.
8. Cause to; inflict upon.
9. Bear; give; offer; provide.
10. Compel; constrain.
11. Empower; cause to; [make + verb.]
12. Pay; show; extend; respond with; give in return.
13. Cause to seem; cause to approximate.
14. Get; acquire; collect; accumulate.
15. Feign; pose; act.
16. Allow; provide; have a tendency.
17. Reach; arrive at.
18. Phrase. “Make out”: constitute; represent; create an image in.
19. Phrase. “Makes effort”: work; labor; travail; strive; struggle.
20. Phrase. “Make acquaintance”: meet; encounter; get to know; present oneself to; become introduced to.
21. Phrase. “Make of”: force; compel; set up; cause to become; cause to assume a role as.
22. Phrase. “Make believe”: dream; hope; wish; pretend; imagine; fantasize.
23. Phrase. “made Flesh”: incarnate; embodied; given a mortal body; brought to life as a human being; [fig.] sanctified by mortal experience; [metaphor] pronounced; represented in speech sounds; spoken aloud in a particular language.