make
engage in
How often you will meet it
Rank 124 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 198,965 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.095% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- engage in also: do make love, not warmake an effort
- give certain properties to something also: get get someone madShe made us look silly
- make or cause to be or to become also: create make a mess in one's officecreate a furor
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner also: induce, stimulate, cause, have, get The ads induced me to buy a VCRMy children finally got me to buy a computer
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally also: cause, do cause a commotionmake a stir
- create or manufacture a man-made product also: produce, create We produce more cars than we can sellThe company has been making toys for two centuries
make in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It is to this charge he now feels he must make answer.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Of course, they make mistakes, but on the whole they pick the best men astonishingly.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Try every child in every child's part before you make your final selection of the cast of characters.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The harmless creature at these words, turned himself from me, and I make no doubt got safe to land.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1