make

:  to distort one's features :  grimace He made a face when I mentioned her name.

:  to treat a trifling matter as of great importance

1 :  to carry off :  steal made away with all the money

2 :  kill

:  pretend, feign made believe that everything was all right

:  venture, dare making bold to think of himself as a guardian of culture — W. H. Pritchard

:  to accept bets at calculated odds on all the entrants in a race or contest a bartender who made book on the side

:  to unite to achieve a shared goal attempted to make common cause with the radicals in areas they could agree on

:  to get along or manage with the means at hand will just have to make do with what we've got

:  to make one's means adequate to one's needs did all they could do to make ends meet

:  ogle Some guy was making eyes at her from across the room.

:  to establish a friendship or friendly relations with made friends with his new neighbors

:  to make an object of amusement or laughter :  ridicule, mock the movie made fun of macho pretensions — Pauline Kael

1 or make good on :  to make valid or complete: such asa :  to make up for (a deficiency) made good previous neglect of his childb :  indemnify make good the lossc :  to carry out successfully made good their escape made good on his promised :  prove made good a charge

2 :  to prove to be capable; also :  succeed The play made good at the box office.

:  to make use of a situation or circumstance especially in order to gain an advantage The candidate made hay of his opponent's scandalous behavior.

1 :  to make progress especially against resistance they made head against the wind — Charles Dickens

2 :  to rise in armed revolt riflemen who … were called on to make head against a series of resolute efforts to drive them from Kentucky — Theodore Roosevelt

1a :  to be successful trying to make it in the big time as a fashion photographer — Joe Kaneb :  to be satisfactory or pleasing if it isn't danceable, it doesn't make it for me — Judy Hyman

2 :  to have sexual intercourse

3 :  survive, live half the cubs won't make it through their first year

:  to treat as of little account all these problems are humorously described but never made light of — Susan Kenney

1 :  woo, court

2a :  neck, petb :  to engage in sexual intercourse

1 :  to treat as of importance The drill sergeant made much of his toughness.

2 :  to treat with obvious affection or special consideration she had evidently enjoyed being made much of in Youngstown — New Yorker

:  to be deliberately and often insincerely polite and agreeable must make nice to politicians they cannot stand — Ken Auletta

:  to be straightforward, unhesitating, or sure makes no bones about the seriousness of the matter

:  to achieve success or fame made his mark as a literary critic — Eric Partridge

:  disclose None of those disagreements were made public.

1 :  to raise or spread sail

2 :  to set out on a voyage The ship made sail at midnight.

:  to manage with difficulty We didn't have much money, but we made shift.

:  ridicule, mock it visibly grieved him when the rest of us made sport of our schoolmates — Tobias Wolff

:  to measure up to some standard :  be successful clever and energetic enough to make the grade in a good law firm — John Train

:  to show or use to the best advantage made the most of her talents

:  to be present at or participate in a usually specified activity or event small time poets just making the scene at readings or in little mags — B. Frazer

1 :  to travel fast made fast time

2 :  to gain time have to make time to get to the bank before it closes

3 :  to make progress toward winning favor trying to make time with the waitress

1 :  to proceed at a walk or run

2 :  to go in a hurry :  run away, flee she quickly made tracks for New York — Glamour

:  to put to use :  employ Students made good use of the new gymnasium.

1 of a boat :  leak

2 :  urinate

:  to create a stir or disturbance continues to make waves with his unique, highly opinionated approach — Suzanne Biallot

1 :  to give room for passing, entering, or occupying many of the old villas were being torn down to make way for high rises — William Murray

2 :  to make progress

slang :  produce, perform —usually used with the Straighten up and walk … make with the feet — Raymond Chandler