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making
Synonyms and Antonyms of making
- she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first
Synonyms and Antonyms of making
- will you help me make the dough for the cookies?
assembling, building, constructing, erecting, making up, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up, structuring, throwing up
cobbling (together or up), knocking out, patching (together), throwing up
creating, inventing, minting, originating
establishing, fathering, instituting, organizing
concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)
- we finally made it!
achieving, attaining, bagging, chalking up, clocking (up) [chiefly British], gaining, hitting, logging, notching (up), racking up, ringing up, scoring, winning
- the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over
conducing (to), contributing (to)
beginning, establishing, fathering, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, setting, setting up, starting
advancing, cultivating, developing, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting
impeding, limiting, restricting
clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, dampening, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressing
arresting, checking, controlling, curbing, inhibiting, reining (in), restraining, retarding
canning [slang], killing, snuffing (out), stilling
abolishing, demolishing, destroying, extinguishing, liquidating, quenching
- one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting
- made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around
- I make that to be about six feet long
calculating, calling, conjecturing, estimating, figuring, gauging (also gaging), guessing, judging, placing, putting, reckoning, supposing
- make a model airplane
carpentering, fashioning, forging, framing, hammering, handcrafting, manufacturing, molding, producing, shaping
beginning, coining, creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originating
constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing
conceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)
reassembling, rebuilding, reconstructing, redeveloping, reedifying [British], retrofitting
- the family made merry despite their financial worries
- the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug
- the legislature failed to make any new laws last session
- I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here
- what do you make of the latest information?
appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding
- make the gate when ye leave
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