dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/mak_MWT.json
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{
"make":{
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"will you help me make the dough for the cookies?"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"form",
"frame",
"manufacture",
"produce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"make up",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"structure",
"throw up",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"hew",
"forge",
"mold",
"shape",
"cobble (together or up)",
"knock out",
"patch (together)",
"throw up",
"prefabricate",
"create",
"invent",
"mint",
"originate",
"establish",
"father",
"institute",
"organize",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"picture",
"visualize",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remanufacture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"take apart",
"break up",
"dismember",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"flatten",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"we finally made it!"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieve",
"attain",
"bag",
"chalk up",
"clock (up)",
"gain",
"hit",
"log",
"notch (up)",
"rack up",
"ring up",
"score",
"win"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquire",
"capture",
"carry",
"draw",
"garner",
"get",
"land",
"obtain",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"amount (to)",
"approach",
"equal",
"match",
"measure up (to)",
"meet",
"rival",
"tie",
"touch",
"beat",
"excel",
"outdo",
"surpass",
"top"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fall short (of)",
"miss",
"fail (at)",
"lose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"do",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"negotiate",
"perform",
"perpetrate",
"prosecute",
"pull off",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"drive",
"force",
"impel",
"impress",
"muscle",
"obligate",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"sandbag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"blackmail",
"high-pressure",
"menace",
"shame",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"drag",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"argue",
"convince",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"examples":[
"I make that to be about six feet long"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculate",
"call",
"conjecture",
"estimate",
"figure",
"gauge",
"gage",
"guess",
"judge",
"place",
"put",
"reckon",
"suppose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclude",
"deduce",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"reason",
"understand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrate",
"measure",
"scale",
"compute",
"work out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"make a model airplane"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make up",
"piece",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenter",
"fashion",
"forge",
"frame",
"hammer",
"handcraft",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"prefabricate",
"begin",
"coin",
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"reassemble",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"redevelop",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"jerry-build",
"rig (up)",
"throw up",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"flatten",
"level",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"ruinate",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"the family made merry despite their financial worries"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"appear",
"come across (as)",
"come off (as)",
"feel",
"look",
"seem",
"sound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"pretend",
"recall",
"resemble",
"suggest",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go on a specified course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"head"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aim",
"bend",
"direct",
"point",
"turn",
"beeline",
"light out",
"put",
"put out",
"set off",
"set out",
"strike",
"take off",
"face",
"orient",
"steer",
"about-face",
"back",
"come about",
"come round",
"cut",
"incline",
"put about",
"reverse",
"swerve",
"tack",
"turn back",
"veer",
"wheel",
"yaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"examples":[
"the legislature failed to make any new laws last session"
],
"synonyms":[
"constitute",
"enact",
"lay down",
"legislate",
"ordain",
"pass"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reenact",
"repass",
"bring about",
"effect",
"allow",
"authorize",
"permit",
"sanction",
"decree",
"dictate",
"proclaim",
"administer",
"execute",
"approve",
"confirm",
"ratify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"cancel",
"invalidate",
"kill",
"nullify",
"overturn",
"reverse",
"void"
],
"antonyms":[
"repeal",
"rescind",
"revoke"
]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquire",
"attain",
"bag",
"bring in",
"capture",
"carry",
"come by",
"draw",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"knock down",
"land",
"obtain",
"procure",
"pull down",
"realize",
"reap",
"secure",
"win"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"gross",
"net",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"notch (up)",
"score",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"rack up",
"catch",
"pick up",
"annex",
"occupy",
"take over",
"reacquire",
"reattain",
"recapture",
"regain",
"remake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accord",
"give",
"grant",
"pay",
"give up",
"hand over",
"part (with)",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeit",
"lose"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"what do you make of the latest information?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make out",
"perceive",
"recognize",
"register",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss"
]
},
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
"examples":[
"make the gate when ye leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"shut",
"steek"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bar",
"batten (down)",
"bolt",
"chain",
"fasten",
"latch",
"lock",
"plug",
"seal",
"stopper",
"secure",
"bang",
"clap",
"slam"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbar",
"unbolt",
"unchain",
"unfasten",
"unlatch",
"unlock",
"unseal"
],
"antonyms":[
"open"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make a comeback":{
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"examples":[
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
],
"synonyms":[
"bounce (back)",
"come back",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"snap back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reanimate",
"revitalize",
"revive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"fail",
"worsen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make away with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"They made away with the baby in the middle of the night."
],
"synonyms":[
"abduct"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"crimp",
"impress",
"kidnap",
"seize",
"shanghai",
"waylay",
"abscond (with)",
"snatch",
"spirit",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"catch",
"cop",
"steal",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliver",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"restore",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"The gangster's henchmen made away with several of his rivals."
],
"synonyms":[
"carry off",
"claim",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"kill",
"slay",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bump off",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"finish",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"scrag",
"snuff",
"take out",
"waste",
"whack",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"decimate",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow",
"slaughter",
"smite",
"assassinate",
"execute",
"martyr",
"terminate",
"euthanize",
"euthanatize",
"put down",
"suicide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"nurture"
],
"antonyms":[
"animate"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The thief made away with merchandise worth thousands of dollars."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make good on":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
],
"synonyms":[
"answer",
"complete",
"comply (with)",
"fill",
"fulfill",
"keep",
"meet",
"redeem",
"satisfy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclude",
"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"perfect",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring about",
"bring off",
"carry out",
"effect",
"commit",
"compass",
"discharge",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"make",
"perform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"default (on)",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight"
],
"antonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"transgress",
"violate"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make one's flesh crawl":{
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"bowl over",
"dismay",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shake",
"shake up",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"psych (out)",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"steel"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassure"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"make tracks":{
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"The frightened cat made tracks into the other room when guests began to arrive."
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"You'd better make tracks if you want to catch that bus!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make way":{
"as in open , clear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makes believe":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
],
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"acts",
"affects",
"assumes",
"bluffs",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"passes (for)",
"pretends",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulates",
"impersonates",
"lets on",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"forges",
"imitates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"feints",
"malingers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes much of":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"He made much of the one study that supported his argument."
],
"synonyms":[
"accents",
"accentuates",
"emphasizes",
"features",
"foregrounds",
"highlights",
"illuminates",
"plays up",
"points (up)",
"presses",
"punctuates",
"stresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focuses",
"focusses",
"identifies",
"pinpoints",
"spotlights",
"advertises",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"overplays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tones (down)",
"underemphasizes",
"understates",
"belittles",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizes",
"plays down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makeshift":{
"taking the place of one that came before":{
"examples":[
"turned a towel into a makeshift skirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"new",
"substitute",
"substitutive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"alternative",
"pinch",
"different",
"other",
"separate",
"extra",
"spare",
"improvised",
"jury",
"another",
"second",
"utility",
"successive",
"equivalent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"first",
"former",
"equal",
"identical",
"same",
"lasting",
"permanent"
],
"antonyms":[
"original"
]
},
"a temporary replacement":{
"examples":[
"when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift"
],
"synonyms":[
"expedient",
"stopgap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quick fix",
"recourse",
"refuge",
"resort",
"alternate",
"backup",
"standby",
"stand-in",
"substitute",
"understudy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"phrase"
]
},
"makeup":{
"to be all the substance of":{
"examples":[
"the book is made up of 20 chapters"
],
"synonyms":[
"compose",
"comprise",
"constitute",
"form"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embody",
"epitomize",
"incarnate",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"materialize",
"personify",
"substantiate",
"complement",
"complete",
"supplement",
"fill (out)",
"flesh (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"concoct",
"construct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"drum up",
"excogitate",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"trump up",
"vamp (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coin",
"design",
"hatch",
"produce",
"daydream",
"dream",
"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"envision",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked \"some assembly required\""
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"piece",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenter",
"fashion",
"forge",
"frame",
"hammer",
"handcraft",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"prefabricate",
"begin",
"coin",
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"reassemble",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"redevelop",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"jerry-build",
"rig (up)",
"throw up",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"flatten",
"level",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"ruinate",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
]
},
"preparations intended to beautify the face":{
"examples":[
"she never left the house without applying her makeup and arranging her jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"cosmetics",
"maquillage",
"paint",
"war paint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greasepaint",
"camo",
"camouflage",
"cold cream",
"cream",
"eye shadow",
"kohl",
"lipstick",
"lotion",
"mascara",
"oil",
"powder",
"rouge",
"vanishing cream"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged":{
"examples":[
"the makeup of the memorial is strikingly simple: a single massive globe signifying world unity"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrangement",
"composition",
"configuration",
"constellation",
"design",
"form",
"format",
"getup",
"layout",
"ordonnance",
"pattern"
],
"near synonyms":[
"motif",
"theme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"making out":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"we're not rich, but we're making out all right"
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"doing",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"managing",
"shifting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I can't quite make out what she is trying to say"
],
"synonyms":[
"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",
"perceiving",
"recognizing",
"registering",
"savvying",
"seeing",
"seizing",
"sensing",
"tumbling (to)",
"twigging",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing"
]
},
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"he tried to make out that he didn't mind losing his job, but friends suspected he was desperately worried"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"letting on",
"pretending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"impersonating",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"feigning",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"bluffing",
"feinting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"as best as I can make out , the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating"
],
"synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"deriving",
"extrapolating",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"reasoning",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assuming",
"supposing",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"speculating",
"surmising",
"construing",
"interpreting",
"reading",
"contemplating",
"philosophizing",
"rationalizing",
"thinking",
"ascertaining",
"doping (out)",
"finding out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makeover":{
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
"examples":[
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
],
"synonyms":[
"alchemize",
"convert",
"metamorphose",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute",
"transpose",
"transubstantiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjust",
"alter",
"modify",
"recast",
"redefine",
"redesign",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"regenerate",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary",
"deform",
"disfigure",
"distort",
"mutate",
"transmogrify",
"displace",
"replace",
"substitute",
"supplant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
"examples":[
"made the deed over to his daughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"alien",
"alienate",
"assign",
"cede",
"convey",
"deed",
"transfer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bequeath",
"hand down",
"leave",
"pass (down)",
"will",
"bestow",
"commend",
"commit",
"confer",
"contribute",
"deliver",
"donate",
"grant",
"hand over",
"move",
"pass",
"present",
"release",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"transmit",
"turn in",
"turn over",
"vest",
"yield",
"consign",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"trust",
"lease",
"lend",
"let",
"loan",
"rent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expropriate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter",
"change",
"modify",
"recast",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deform",
"metamorphose",
"mutate",
"regenerate",
"revolutionize",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute",
"commute",
"convert",
"exchange",
"rejigger",
"retool"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fix",
"freeze",
"set",
"stabilize"
]
},
"as in transformation , modification":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alteration",
"conversion",
"modification",
"refit",
"revision",
"transformation",
"attunement",
"correction",
"harmonization",
"readaptation",
"readjustment",
"acclimation",
"acclimatization",
"accommodation",
"adaptation",
"adaption",
"adjustment",
"conformation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maladaptation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"makes up":{
"to be all the substance of":{
"examples":[
"the book is made up of 20 chapters"
],
"synonyms":[
"composes",
"comprises",
"constitutes",
"forms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embodies",
"epitomizes",
"incarnates",
"incorporates",
"integrates",
"materializes",
"personifies",
"substantiates",
"complements",
"completes",
"supplements",
"fills (out)",
"fleshes (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocts",
"constructs",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"drums up",
"excogitates",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"manufactures",
"thinks (up)",
"trumps up",
"vamps (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coins",
"designs",
"hatches",
"produces",
"daydreams",
"dreams",
"fantasizes",
"conceives",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"visions",
"visualizes",
"ad-libs",
"extemporizes",
"improvises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clones",
"copies",
"copycats",
"duplicates",
"imitates",
"mimics",
"reduplicates",
"replicates",
"reproduces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked \"some assembly required\""
],
"synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"confects",
"constructs",
"erects",
"fabricates",
"makes",
"pieces",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenters",
"fashions",
"forges",
"frames",
"hammers",
"handcrafts",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"prefabricates",
"begins",
"coins",
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"reassembles",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"redevelops",
"reedifies",
"retrofits",
"jerry-builds",
"rigs (up)",
"throws up",
"combines",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"flattens",
"levels",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruinates",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disunites",
"divides",
"separates"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounts",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"dismembers",
"knocks down",
"strikes",
"takes down",
"tears down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making the grade":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"There were many applicants for the position, but only a few made the grade for an interview."
],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes":{
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"will you help me make the dough for the cookies?"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forms",
"frames",
"manufactures",
"produces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"makes up",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up",
"structures",
"throws up",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"hews",
"forges",
"molds",
"shapes",
"cobbles (together or up)",
"knocks out",
"patches (together)",
"throws up",
"prefabricates",
"creates",
"invents",
"mints",
"originates",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"conceives",
"envisages",
"pictures",
"visualizes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remanufactures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"takes apart",
"breaks up",
"dismembers",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"flattens",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"we finally made it!"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieves",
"attains",
"bags",
"chalks up",
"clocks (up)",
"gains",
"hits",
"logs",
"notches (up)",
"racks up",
"rings up",
"scores",
"wins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquires",
"captures",
"carries",
"draws",
"garners",
"gets",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"realizes",
"secures",
"amounts (to)",
"approaches",
"equals",
"matches",
"measures up (to)",
"meets",
"rivals",
"ties",
"touches",
"beats",
"excels",
"outdoes",
"surpasses",
"tops"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falls short (of)",
"misses",
"fails (at)",
"loses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over"
],
"synonyms":[
"begets",
"breeds",
"brings",
"brings about",
"brings on",
"catalyzes",
"causes",
"creates",
"does",
"draws on",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"engenders",
"generates",
"induces",
"invokes",
"occasions",
"produces",
"prompts",
"results (in)",
"spawns",
"translates (into)",
"works",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduces (to)",
"contributes (to)",
"decides",
"determines",
"begins",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"sets",
"sets up",
"starts",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"develops",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"enacts",
"renders",
"turns out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"dampens",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"smothers",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"arrests",
"checks",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"retards",
"cans",
"kills",
"snuffs (out)",
"stills",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"extinguishes",
"liquidates",
"quenches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings off",
"carries off",
"carries out",
"commits",
"compasses",
"does",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"negotiates",
"performs",
"perpetrates",
"prosecutes",
"pulls off",
"puts through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brings about",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"implements",
"aces",
"nails",
"engages (in)",
"practices",
"practises",
"works (at)",
"reduplicates",
"reenacts",
"repeats",
"actualizes",
"attains",
"realizes",
"completes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"winds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fails",
"skimps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"drives",
"forces",
"impels",
"impresses",
"muscles",
"obligates",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"sandbags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"blackmails",
"high-pressures",
"menaces",
"shames",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"drags",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"argues",
"convinces",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"examples":[
"I make that to be about six feet long"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculates",
"calls",
"conjectures",
"estimates",
"figures",
"gauges",
"gages",
"guesses",
"judges",
"places",
"puts",
"reckons",
"supposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"deduces",
"extrapolates",
"gathers",
"infers",
"reasons",
"understands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrates",
"measures",
"scales",
"computes",
"works out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"make a model airplane"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"confects",
"constructs",
"erects",
"fabricates",
"makes up",
"pieces",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenters",
"fashions",
"forges",
"frames",
"hammers",
"handcrafts",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"prefabricates",
"begins",
"coins",
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"reassembles",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"redevelops",
"reedifies",
"retrofits",
"jerry-builds",
"rigs (up)",
"throws up",
"combines",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"flattens",
"levels",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruinates",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disunites",
"divides",
"separates"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounts",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"dismembers",
"knocks down",
"strikes",
"takes down",
"tears down"
]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"the family made merry despite their financial worries"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"appears",
"comes across (as)",
"comes off (as)",
"feels",
"looks",
"seems",
"sounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"pretends",
"recalls",
"resembles",
"suggests",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go on a specified course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"heads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aims",
"bends",
"directs",
"points",
"turns",
"beelines",
"lights out",
"puts",
"puts out",
"sets off",
"sets out",
"strikes",
"takes off",
"faces",
"orients",
"steers",
"about-faces",
"backs",
"comes about",
"comes round",
"cuts",
"inclines",
"puts about",
"reverses",
"swerves",
"tacks",
"turns back",
"veers",
"wheels",
"yaws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"examples":[
"the legislature failed to make any new laws last session"
],
"synonyms":[
"constitutes",
"enacts",
"lays down",
"legislates",
"ordains",
"passes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reenacts",
"repasses",
"brings about",
"effects",
"allows",
"authorizes",
"permits",
"sanctions",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"proclaims",
"administers",
"executes",
"approves",
"confirms",
"ratifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishes",
"abrogates",
"annuls",
"cancels",
"invalidates",
"kills",
"nullifies",
"overturns",
"reverses",
"voids"
],
"antonyms":[
"repeals",
"rescinds",
"revokes"
]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"bags",
"brings in",
"captures",
"carries",
"comes by",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"knocks down",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"pulls down",
"realizes",
"reaps",
"secures",
"wins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clears",
"grosses",
"nets",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"notches (up)",
"scores",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"racks up",
"catches",
"picks up",
"annexes",
"occupies",
"takes over",
"reacquires",
"reattains",
"recaptures",
"regains",
"remakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accords",
"gives",
"grants",
"pays",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"parts (with)",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeits",
"loses"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"what do you make of the latest information?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciates",
"apprehends",
"assimilates",
"beholds",
"catches",
"catches on (to)",
"cognizes",
"compasses",
"comprehends",
"conceives",
"cottons (to or on to)",
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"digs",
"discerns",
"gets",
"grasps",
"groks",
"intuits",
"knows",
"makes out",
"perceives",
"recognizes",
"registers",
"savvies",
"sees",
"seizes",
"senses",
"tumbles (to)",
"twigs",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"digests",
"takes in",
"realizes",
"fathoms",
"penetrates",
"pierces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehends",
"misconceives",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misperceives",
"misreads",
"mistakes",
"misunderstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses"
]
},
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
"examples":[
"make the gate when ye leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"closes",
"shuts",
"steeks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bars",
"battens (down)",
"bolts",
"chains",
"fastens",
"latches",
"locks",
"plugs",
"seals",
"stoppers",
"secures",
"bangs",
"claps",
"slams"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbars",
"unbolts",
"unchains",
"unfastens",
"unlatches",
"unlocks",
"unseals"
],
"antonyms":[
"opens"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makes one's flesh crawl":{
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"frights",
"horrifies",
"panics",
"scares",
"scarifies",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"terrorizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalls",
"appals",
"bowls over",
"dismays",
"floors",
"jolts",
"shakes",
"shakes up",
"amazes",
"astounds",
"awes",
"chills",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"dispirits",
"emasculates",
"psychs (out)",
"undoes",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"unstrings",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"steels"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassures"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"make-believe":{
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"zoomed around the house in a make-believe car"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"as in pretense , likeness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affectation",
"demonstration",
"display",
"fiction",
"image",
"imitation",
"imposture",
"likeness",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"representation",
"simulation",
"hint",
"implication",
"insinuation",
"resemblance",
"suggestion",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"exterior",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"gloss",
"mask",
"masquerade",
"patina",
"Potemkin village",
"shape",
"shell",
"surface",
"veneer",
"air",
"effect",
"impression",
"appearance",
"face",
"guise",
"name",
"outward",
"seeming",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"phrase"
]
},
"makes over":{
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
"examples":[
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
],
"synonyms":[
"alchemizes",
"converts",
"metamorphoses",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes",
"transposes",
"transubstantiates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjusts",
"alters",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"redefines",
"redesigns",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"regenerates",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies",
"deforms",
"disfigures",
"distorts",
"mutates",
"transmogrifies",
"displaces",
"replaces",
"substitutes",
"supplants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
"examples":[
"made the deed over to his daughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"alienates",
"aliens",
"assigns",
"cedes",
"conveys",
"deeds",
"transfers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bequeaths",
"hands down",
"leaves",
"passes (down)",
"wills",
"bestows",
"commends",
"commits",
"confers",
"contributes",
"delivers",
"donates",
"grants",
"hands over",
"moves",
"passes",
"presents",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"transmits",
"turns in",
"turns over",
"vests",
"yields",
"consigns",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"trusts",
"leases",
"lends",
"lets",
"loans",
"rents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expropriates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
],
"synonyms":[
"alters",
"changes",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"redoes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforms",
"metamorphoses",
"mutates",
"regenerates",
"revolutionizes",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes",
"commutes",
"converts",
"exchanges",
"rejiggers",
"retools"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixes",
"freezes",
"sets",
"stabilizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make love":{
"as in keep company , go steady":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"go steady",
"keep company",
"court",
"date"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make ends meet":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"The couple's income was just enough to make ends meet each month."
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makeshifts":{
"a temporary replacement":{
"examples":[
"when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift"
],
"synonyms":[
"expedients",
"stopgaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quick fixes",
"recourses",
"refuges",
"resorts",
"alternates",
"backups",
"standbys",
"stand-ins",
"substitutes",
"understudies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"making a show":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"She made a show of addressing the whole audience, rather than a few like-minded folk."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"letting on",
"making out",
"pretending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"impersonating",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"feigning",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"bluffing",
"feinting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making much of":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"He made much of the one study that supported his argument."
],
"synonyms":[
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"featuring",
"foregrounding",
"highlighting",
"illuminating",
"playing up",
"pointing (up)",
"pressing",
"punctuating",
"stressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focusing",
"focussing",
"identifying",
"pinpointing",
"spotlighting",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"overplaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toning (down)",
"underemphasizing",
"understating",
"belittling",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizing",
"playing down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes good on":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
],
"synonyms":[
"answers",
"completes",
"complies (with)",
"fills",
"fulfills",
"keeps",
"meets",
"redeems",
"satisfies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"consummates",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"perfects",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings about",
"brings off",
"carries out",
"effects",
"commits",
"compasses",
"discharges",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"makes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaults (on)",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"transgresses",
"violates"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making ducks and drakes of":{
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"fiddling away",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"losing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"trifling (away)",
"wasting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurging",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"overspending",
"shooting",
"indulging",
"overindulging",
"disbursing",
"expending",
"laying out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizing",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"hoarding",
"laying up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserving"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"making it":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"His parents convinced him that he could make it in anything he chose to do if he worked hard enough."
],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make a scene":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"examples":[
"I know you're upset, but please stop making a scene ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bristle",
"fume",
"rage",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)",
"bluster",
"carry on",
"fulminate",
"rampage",
"rant",
"rave",
"take on",
"burn",
"foam",
"seethe",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"appease",
"pacify",
"soothe",
"check",
"choke (back)",
"collect",
"compose",
"contain",
"curb",
"pocket",
"rein",
"repress",
"restrain",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"moderate",
"temper",
"tone (down)",
"ease",
"let up",
"relax",
"calm",
"cool",
"hush",
"quell",
"quiet",
"settle",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make shift":{
"taking the place of one that came before":{
"examples":[
"turned a towel into a makeshift skirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"new",
"substitute",
"substitutive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"alternative",
"pinch",
"different",
"other",
"separate",
"extra",
"spare",
"improvised",
"jury",
"another",
"second",
"utility",
"successive",
"equivalent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"first",
"former",
"equal",
"identical",
"same",
"lasting",
"permanent"
],
"antonyms":[
"original"
]
},
"a temporary replacement":{
"examples":[
"when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift"
],
"synonyms":[
"expedient",
"stopgap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quick fix",
"recourse",
"refuge",
"resort",
"alternate",
"backup",
"standby",
"stand-in",
"substitute",
"understudy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"phrase"
]
},
"makes off with":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The robbers made off with the family's jewelry and electronics, among other things."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"The kidnappers made off with their victim without being seen."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducts",
"kidnaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"crimps",
"impresses",
"seizes",
"shanghais",
"waylays",
"absconds (with)",
"snatches",
"spirits",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"catches",
"cops",
"steals",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivers",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"restores",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make the grade":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"There were many applicants for the position, but only a few made the grade for an interview."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes out":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"we're not rich, but we're making out all right"
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I can't quite make out what she is trying to say"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciates",
"apprehends",
"assimilates",
"beholds",
"catches",
"catches on (to)",
"cognizes",
"compasses",
"comprehends",
"conceives",
"cottons (to or on to)",
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"digs",
"discerns",
"gets",
"grasps",
"groks",
"intuits",
"knows",
"makes",
"perceives",
"recognizes",
"registers",
"savvies",
"sees",
"seizes",
"senses",
"tumbles (to)",
"twigs",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"digests",
"takes in",
"realizes",
"fathoms",
"penetrates",
"pierces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehends",
"misconceives",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misperceives",
"misreads",
"mistakes",
"misunderstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses"
]
},
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"he tried to make out that he didn't mind losing his job, but friends suspected he was desperately worried"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"lets on",
"pretends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"bluffs",
"feints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"as best as I can make out , the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating"
],
"synonyms":[
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"derives",
"extrapolates",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumes",
"supposes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"speculates",
"surmises",
"construes",
"interprets",
"reads",
"contemplates",
"philosophizes",
"rationalizes",
"thinks",
"ascertains",
"dopes (out)",
"finds out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make faces":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimace",
"mouth",
"mug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pout",
"contort",
"deform",
"twist",
"warp",
"frown",
"glare",
"gloom",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl",
"gape",
"gaze",
"ogle",
"stare",
"growl",
"snarl",
"sneer",
"simper",
"smirk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"grin",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making away with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"They made away with the baby in the middle of the night."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"crimping",
"impressing",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"seizing",
"shanghaiing",
"waylaying",
"absconding (with)",
"snatching",
"spiriting",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"catching",
"copping",
"stealing",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivering",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"restoring",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"The gangster's henchmen made away with several of his rivals."
],
"synonyms":[
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"felling",
"killing",
"slaying",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumping off",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"finishing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"scragging",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"wasting",
"whacking",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"decimating",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing",
"slaughtering",
"smiting",
"assassinating",
"executing",
"martyring",
"terminating",
"euthanizing",
"euthanatizing",
"putting down",
"suiciding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving",
"nurturing"
],
"antonyms":[
"animating"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The thief made away with merchandise worth thousands of dollars."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make-belief":{
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"zoomed around the house in a make-believe car"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"as in pretense , likeness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affectation",
"demonstration",
"display",
"fiction",
"image",
"imitation",
"imposture",
"likeness",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"representation",
"simulation",
"hint",
"implication",
"insinuation",
"resemblance",
"suggestion",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"exterior",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"gloss",
"mask",
"masquerade",
"patina",
"Potemkin village",
"shape",
"shell",
"surface",
"veneer",
"air",
"effect",
"impression",
"appearance",
"face",
"guise",
"name",
"outward",
"seeming",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"phrase"
]
},
"making sail":{
"as in taking ship":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"taking ship",
"boating",
"cruising",
"ferrying",
"navigating",
"sailing",
"shipping (out)",
"voyaging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makes a scene":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"examples":[
"I know you're upset, but please stop making a scene ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bristles",
"fumes",
"rages",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows up",
"flares (up)",
"flips (out)",
"blusters",
"carries on",
"fulminates",
"rampages",
"rants",
"raves",
"takes on",
"burns",
"foams",
"seethes",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"steams",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"appeases",
"pacifies",
"soothes",
"checks",
"chokes (back)",
"collects",
"composes",
"contains",
"curbs",
"pockets",
"reins",
"represses",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"moderates",
"tempers",
"tones (down)",
"eases",
"lets up",
"relaxes",
"calms",
"cools",
"hushes",
"quells",
"quiets",
"settles",
"stills"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes a show":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"She made a show of addressing the whole audience, rather than a few like-minded folk."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"lets on",
"makes out",
"pretends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"bluffs",
"feints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes good for":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
],
"synonyms":[
"atones (for)",
"expiates",
"mends",
"redeems"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensates",
"recompenses",
"reimburses",
"remunerates",
"repays",
"amends",
"corrects",
"rectifies",
"redresses",
"propitiates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making game of":{
"as in picking on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"picking on",
"baiting",
"hassling",
"hazing",
"heckling",
"needling",
"riding",
"taunting",
"teasing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makes love":{
"as in keeps company , goes steady":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goes steady",
"keeps company",
"courts",
"dates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making over":{
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
"examples":[
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
],
"synonyms":[
"alchemizing",
"converting",
"metamorphosing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"transposing",
"transubstantiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjusting",
"altering",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"redefining",
"redesigning",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"regenerating",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying",
"deforming",
"disfiguring",
"distorting",
"mutating",
"transmogrifying",
"displacing",
"replacing",
"substituting",
"supplanting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
"examples":[
"made the deed over to his daughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"alienating",
"aliening",
"assigning",
"ceding",
"conveying",
"deeding",
"transferring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bequeathing",
"handing down",
"leaving",
"passing (down)",
"willing",
"bestowing",
"commending",
"committing",
"conferring",
"contributing",
"delivering",
"donating",
"granting",
"handing over",
"moving",
"passing",
"presenting",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"transmitting",
"turning in",
"turning over",
"vesting",
"yielding",
"consigning",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"trusting",
"leasing",
"lending",
"letting",
"loaning",
"renting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expropriating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
],
"synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforming",
"metamorphosing",
"mutating",
"regenerating",
"revolutionizing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"commuting",
"converting",
"exchanging",
"rejiggering",
"retooling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixing",
"freezing",
"setting",
"stabilizing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makes a pretense":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"He didn't even make a pretense of appreciating her artwork."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"lets on",
"makes out",
"pretends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"bluffs",
"feints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes common cause":{
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"The managers attempted to make common cause between their departments to get the project done quickly and efficiently."
],
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"bands (together)",
"collaborates",
"concerts",
"concurs",
"conjoins",
"conspires",
"cooperates",
"joins",
"leagues",
"teams (up)",
"unites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connives",
"affiliates",
"allies",
"associates",
"combines",
"confederates",
"hangs together",
"interfaces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make a face":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimace",
"mouth",
"mug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pout",
"contort",
"deform",
"twist",
"warp",
"frown",
"glare",
"gloom",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl",
"gape",
"gaze",
"ogle",
"stare",
"growl",
"snarl",
"sneer",
"simper",
"smirk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"grin",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make a show":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"She made a show of addressing the whole audience, rather than a few like-minded folk."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"let on",
"make out",
"pretend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"affect",
"assume",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feign",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"bluff",
"feint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making use of":{
"to put into action or service":{
"examples":[
"We made use of a waterproof camera to photograph undersea life."
],
"synonyms":[
"applying",
"employing",
"exercising",
"exploiting",
"harnessing",
"operating",
"using",
"utilizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handling",
"manipulating",
"wielding",
"directing",
"running",
"working",
"cannibalizing",
"recycling",
"reusing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"misapplying",
"misusing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes one's mark":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"They made their mark on the scientific world with a groundbreaking discovery."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making a scene":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"examples":[
"I know you're upset, but please stop making a scene ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bristling",
"fuming",
"raging",
"storming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"flaring (up)",
"flipping (out)",
"blustering",
"carrying on",
"fulminating",
"rampaging",
"ranting",
"raving",
"taking on",
"burning",
"foaming",
"seething",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"steaming",
"chafing",
"fretting",
"stewing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"appeasing",
"pacifying",
"soothing",
"checking",
"choking (back)",
"collecting",
"composing",
"containing",
"curbing",
"pocketing",
"reining",
"repressing",
"restraining",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"swallowing",
"moderating",
"tempering",
"toning (down)",
"easing",
"letting up",
"relaxing",
"calming",
"cooling",
"hushing",
"quelling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"stilling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes game of":{
"as in picks on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"picks on",
"baits",
"hassles",
"hazes",
"heckles",
"needles",
"rides",
"taunts",
"teases"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make fun of":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"It's cruel to make fun of other people's imperfections."
],
"synonyms":[
"deride",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"laugh (at)",
"mock",
"ridicule",
"scout",
"shoot down",
"skewer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoff (at)",
"scorn",
"sneer (at)",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"disparage",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"put down",
"chaff",
"jive",
"josh",
"kid",
"quiz",
"rally",
"razz",
"rib",
"ride",
"tease",
"tweak",
"twit",
"bait",
"barrack",
"bug",
"catcall",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"heckle",
"needle",
"pester",
"rag",
"target",
"taunt",
"torment",
"ape",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"imitate",
"lampoon",
"mimic",
"parody",
"parrot",
"pillory",
"satirize",
"take off (on)",
"travesty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applaud",
"approve",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making one's flesh crawl":{
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"frighting",
"horrifying",
"panicking",
"scarifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"terrorizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalling",
"bowling over",
"dismaying",
"flooring",
"jolting",
"shaking",
"shaking up",
"amazing",
"astounding",
"awing",
"chilling",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"dispiriting",
"emasculating",
"psyching (out)",
"undoing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"unstringing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
"steeling"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassuring"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"makes off":{
"as in gets out , gets (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"lights out",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs",
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs",
"runs away",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making shift":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"doing",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"making out",
"managing",
"shifting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make amends (for)":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
],
"synonyms":[
"atone (for)",
"expiate",
"mend",
"redeem"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensate",
"recompense",
"reimburse",
"remunerate",
"repay",
"amend",
"correct",
"rectify",
"redress",
"propitiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make common cause":{
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"The managers attempted to make common cause between their departments to get the project done quickly and efficiently."
],
"synonyms":[
"band (together)",
"collaborate",
"concert",
"concur",
"conjoin",
"conspire",
"cooperate",
"join",
"league",
"team (up)",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connive",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"combine",
"confederate",
"hang together",
"interface"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making it (through)":{
"to come safely through":{
"examples":[
"He made it through the serious illness with few lasting effects.",
"The company will be lucky to make it through another year with all the money it's losing."
],
"synonyms":[
"riding (out)",
"weathering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlasting",
"outliving",
"wearing out",
"pulling through",
"abiding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"hanging on",
"holding on",
"holding out",
"holding up",
"lasting",
"leading",
"persisting",
"standing",
"sticking out",
"surviving",
"withstanding",
"being",
"breathing",
"existing",
"living",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"departing",
"dying",
"expiring",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"perishing",
"succumbing",
"disappearing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"vanishing",
"ceasing",
"ending",
"stopping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes do":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"She could make do just fine and didn't need anyone's help."
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"Maker":{
"someone or something that makes something (such as a manufactured product)":{
"examples":[
"Auto makers will have to ensure that their vehicles meet the new emissions standards."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"builder",
"manufacturer",
"producer",
"factory",
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"shop",
"works",
"workshop",
"creator",
"conceiver",
"contriver",
"designer",
"deviser",
"formulator",
"innovator",
"introducer",
"inventor",
"spawner",
"distributor",
"provider",
"provisioner",
"purveyor",
"supplier",
"architect",
"engineer",
"mastermind",
"artist",
"mechanic",
"operative",
"shaper",
"smith",
"wright",
"craftswoman",
"journeyman",
"master",
"handyman",
"handyperson",
"workman",
"artificer",
"artisan",
"crafter",
"craftsman",
"craftsperson",
"handcraftsman",
"handicrafter",
"handicraftsman",
"handworker",
"tradesman",
"cocreator",
"cofounder",
"developer",
"pioneer",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"author",
"begetter",
"establisher",
"father",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us give thanks to our Maker for this meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"making port":{
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"They made port near a small waterfront town and had lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"anchoring",
"docking",
"landing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berthing",
"mooring",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"beaching",
"grounding",
"harboring",
"arriving",
"reaching",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"debarking",
"disembarking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarking",
"launching",
"sailing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes sport of":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"The commentator often makes sport of the fashion choices of the famous."
],
"synonyms":[
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"laughs (at)",
"mocks",
"ridicules",
"scouts",
"shoots down",
"skewers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffs (at)",
"scorns",
"sneers (at)",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"disparages",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"puts down",
"chaffs",
"jives",
"joshes",
"kids",
"quizzes",
"rallies",
"razzes",
"ribs",
"rides",
"teases",
"tweaks",
"twits",
"baits",
"barracks",
"bugs",
"catcalls",
"harasses",
"harries",
"hassles",
"heckles",
"needles",
"pesters",
"rags",
"targets",
"taunts",
"torments",
"apes",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"imitates",
"lampoons",
"mimics",
"parodies",
"parrots",
"pillories",
"satirizes",
"takes off (on)",
"travesties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauds",
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making one's flesh creep":{
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"frighting",
"horrifying",
"panicking",
"scarifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"terrorizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalling",
"bowling over",
"dismaying",
"flooring",
"jolting",
"shaking",
"shaking up",
"amazing",
"astounding",
"awing",
"chilling",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"dispiriting",
"emasculating",
"psyching (out)",
"undoing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"unstringing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
"steeling"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassuring"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"make up (for)":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"examples":[
"the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"annul",
"cancel (out)",
"compensate (for)",
"correct",
"counteract",
"counterbalance",
"counterpoise",
"negative",
"neutralize",
"offset"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invalidate",
"negate",
"neuter",
"nullify",
"atone (for)",
"outbalance",
"outweigh",
"redeem",
"redress",
"relieve",
"remedy",
"override",
"overrule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making do":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"She could make do just fine and didn't need anyone's help."
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"doing",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"making out",
"managing",
"shifting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make port":{
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"They made port near a small waterfront town and had lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"anchor",
"dock",
"land"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berth",
"moor",
"tie up",
"beach",
"ground",
"harbor",
"arrive",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"debark",
"disembark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embark",
"launch",
"sail"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make ducks and drakes of":{
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fiddle away",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"lose",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"trifle (away)",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurge",
"consume",
"deplete",
"exhaust",
"impoverish",
"overspend",
"shoot",
"indulge",
"overindulge",
"disburse",
"expend",
"lay out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economize",
"scrimp",
"skimp",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"hoard",
"lay up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserve"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"makes amends for":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
],
"synonyms":[
"atones (for)",
"expiates",
"mends",
"redeems"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensates",
"recompenses",
"reimburses",
"remunerates",
"repays",
"amends",
"corrects",
"rectifies",
"redresses",
"propitiates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes fun of":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"It's cruel to make fun of other people's imperfections."
],
"synonyms":[
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"laughs (at)",
"mocks",
"ridicules",
"scouts",
"shoots down",
"skewers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffs (at)",
"scorns",
"sneers (at)",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"disparages",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"puts down",
"chaffs",
"jives",
"joshes",
"kids",
"quizzes",
"rallies",
"razzes",
"ribs",
"rides",
"teases",
"tweaks",
"twits",
"baits",
"barracks",
"bugs",
"catcalls",
"harasses",
"harries",
"hassles",
"heckles",
"needles",
"pesters",
"rags",
"targets",
"taunts",
"torments",
"apes",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"imitates",
"lampoons",
"mimics",
"parodies",
"parrots",
"pillories",
"satirizes",
"takes off (on)",
"travesties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauds",
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make sport of":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"The commentator often makes sport of the fashion choices of the famous."
],
"synonyms":[
"deride",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"laugh (at)",
"mock",
"ridicule",
"scout",
"shoot down",
"skewer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoff (at)",
"scorn",
"sneer (at)",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"disparage",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"put down",
"chaff",
"jive",
"josh",
"kid",
"quiz",
"rally",
"razz",
"rib",
"ride",
"tease",
"tweak",
"twit",
"bait",
"barrack",
"bug",
"catcall",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"heckle",
"needle",
"pester",
"rag",
"target",
"taunt",
"torment",
"ape",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"imitate",
"lampoon",
"mimic",
"parody",
"parrot",
"pillory",
"satirize",
"take off (on)",
"travesty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applaud",
"approve",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes sail":{
"as in takes ship":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"takes ship",
"boats",
"cruises",
"ferries",
"navigates",
"sails",
"ships (out)",
"voyages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making":{
"the basic elements from which something can be developed":{
"examples":[
"she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first"
],
"synonyms":[
"material",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"substance",
"timber"
],
"near synonyms":[
"possibility",
"potential",
"potentiality",
"matter",
"metal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"will you help me make the dough for the cookies?"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"framing",
"manufacturing",
"producing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"making up",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"structuring",
"throwing up",
"crafting",
"handcrafting",
"hewing",
"forging",
"molding",
"shaping",
"cobbling (together or up)",
"knocking out",
"patching (together)",
"throwing up",
"prefabricating",
"creating",
"inventing",
"minting",
"originating",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"picturing",
"visualizing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remanufacturing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"taking apart",
"breaking up",
"dismembering",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"flattening",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"we finally made it!"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieving",
"attaining",
"bagging",
"chalking up",
"clocking (up)",
"gaining",
"hitting",
"logging",
"notching (up)",
"racking up",
"ringing up",
"scoring",
"winning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiring",
"capturing",
"carrying",
"drawing",
"garnering",
"getting",
"landing",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"realizing",
"securing",
"amounting (to)",
"approaching",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"measuring up (to)",
"meeting",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"touching",
"tying",
"tieing",
"beating",
"excelling",
"outdoing",
"surpassing",
"topping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falling short (of)",
"missing",
"failing (at)",
"losing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over"
],
"synonyms":[
"begetting",
"breeding",
"bringing",
"bringing about",
"bringing on",
"catalyzing",
"causing",
"creating",
"doing",
"drawing on",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"engendering",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"occasioning",
"producing",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"translating (into)",
"working",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"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",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"turning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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",
"killing",
"snuffing (out)",
"stilling",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"extinguishing",
"liquidating",
"quenching"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing off",
"carrying off",
"carrying out",
"committing",
"compassing",
"doing",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"fulfilling",
"negotiating",
"performing",
"perpetrating",
"prosecuting",
"pulling off",
"putting through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"implementing",
"acing",
"nailing",
"engaging (in)",
"practicing",
"practising",
"working (at)",
"reduplicating",
"reenacting",
"repeating",
"actualizing",
"attaining",
"realizing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"winding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failing",
"skimping",
"slighting",
"slurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"driving",
"forcing",
"impelling",
"impressing",
"muscling",
"obligating",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"sandbagging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"blackmailing",
"high-pressuring",
"menacing",
"shaming",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"dragging",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"arguing",
"convincing",
"inducing",
"moving",
"persuading",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"examples":[
"I make that to be about six feet long"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculating",
"calling",
"conjecturing",
"estimating",
"figuring",
"gauging",
"gaging",
"guessing",
"judging",
"placing",
"putting",
"reckoning",
"supposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deducing",
"extrapolating",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"reasoning",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrating",
"measuring",
"scaling",
"computing",
"working out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"make a model airplane"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"fabricating",
"making up",
"piecing",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentering",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"framing",
"hammering",
"handcrafting",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"prefabricating",
"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",
"retrofitting",
"jerry-building",
"rigging (up)",
"throwing up",
"combining",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruinating",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down"
]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"the family made merry despite their financial worries"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"appearing",
"coming across (as)",
"coming off (as)",
"feeling",
"looking",
"seeming",
"sounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"pretending",
"recalling",
"resembling",
"suggesting",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go on a specified course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"heading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aiming",
"bending",
"directing",
"pointing",
"turning",
"beelining",
"lighting out",
"putting",
"putting out",
"setting off",
"setting out",
"striking",
"taking off",
"facing",
"orienting",
"steering",
"about-facing",
"backing",
"coming about",
"coming round",
"cutting",
"inclining",
"putting about",
"reversing",
"swerving",
"tacking",
"turning back",
"veering",
"wheeling",
"yawing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"examples":[
"the legislature failed to make any new laws last session"
],
"synonyms":[
"constituting",
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"ordaining",
"passing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reenacting",
"repassing",
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"allowing",
"authorizing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"decreeing",
"dictating",
"proclaiming",
"administering",
"executing",
"approving",
"confirming",
"ratifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"invalidating",
"killing",
"nullifying",
"overturning",
"reversing",
"voiding"
],
"antonyms":[
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking"
]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquiring",
"attaining",
"bagging",
"bringing in",
"capturing",
"carrying",
"coming by",
"drawing",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"knocking down",
"landing",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"pulling down",
"realizing",
"reaping",
"securing",
"winning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clearing",
"grossing",
"netting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"notching (up)",
"scoring",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"racking up",
"catching",
"picking up",
"annexing",
"occupying",
"taking over",
"reacquiring",
"reattaining",
"recapturing",
"regaining",
"remaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"according",
"giving",
"granting",
"paying",
"giving up",
"handing over",
"parting (with)",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeiting",
"losing"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"what do you make of the latest information?"
],
"synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing"
]
},
"to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening":{
"examples":[
"make the gate when ye leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"closing",
"shutting",
"steeking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barring",
"battening (down)",
"bolting",
"chaining",
"fastening",
"latching",
"locking",
"plugging",
"sealing",
"stoppering",
"securing",
"banging",
"clapping",
"slamming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbarring",
"unbolting",
"unchaining",
"unfastening",
"unlatching",
"unlocking",
"unsealing"
],
"antonyms":[
"opening"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"make game of":{
"as in pick on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pick on",
"bait",
"hassle",
"haze",
"heckle",
"needle",
"ride",
"taunt",
"tease"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make use of":{
"to put into action or service":{
"examples":[
"We made use of a waterproof camera to photograph undersea life."
],
"synonyms":[
"apply",
"employ",
"exercise",
"exploit",
"harness",
"operate",
"use",
"utilize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handle",
"manipulate",
"wield",
"direct",
"run",
"work",
"cannibalize",
"recycle",
"reuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignore",
"neglect",
"misapply",
"misuse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making love":{
"sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis":{
"examples":[
"They decided to delay making love until they were married."
],
"synonyms":[
"coition",
"coitus",
"commerce",
"congress",
"copulating",
"copulation",
"coupling",
"intercourse",
"lovemaking",
"mating",
"relations",
"sex",
"sex act",
"sexual intercourse",
"sexual relations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fornication",
"safe sex",
"carnality",
"sexuality",
"breeding",
"insemination",
"dalliance",
"hanky-panky",
"whoopee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes a comeback":{
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"examples":[
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
],
"synonyms":[
"bounces (back)",
"comes back",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers",
"snaps back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reanimates",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declines",
"fails",
"worsens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making up (for)":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"examples":[
"the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"annulling",
"canceling (out)",
"cancelling (out)",
"compensating (for)",
"correcting",
"counteracting",
"counterbalancing",
"counterpoising",
"negativing",
"neutralizing",
"offsetting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invalidating",
"negating",
"neutering",
"nullifying",
"atoning (for)",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"redeeming",
"redressing",
"relieving",
"remedying",
"overriding",
"overruling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make sail":{
"as in take ship":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"take ship",
"boat",
"cruise",
"ferry",
"navigate",
"sail",
"ship (out)",
"voyage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making a face":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimacing",
"mouthing",
"mugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouting",
"contorting",
"deforming",
"twisting",
"warping",
"frowning",
"glaring",
"glooming",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"gaping",
"gazing",
"ogling",
"staring",
"growling",
"snarling",
"sneering",
"simpering",
"smirking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"grinning",
"smiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make good":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
],
"synonyms":[
"answer",
"complete",
"comply (with)",
"fill",
"fulfill",
"keep",
"meet",
"redeem",
"satisfy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclude",
"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"perfect",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring about",
"bring off",
"carry out",
"effect",
"commit",
"compass",
"discharge",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"make",
"perform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"default (on)",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight"
],
"antonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"transgress",
"violate"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes one's flesh creep":{
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"frights",
"horrifies",
"panics",
"scares",
"scarifies",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"terrorizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalls",
"appals",
"bowls over",
"dismays",
"floors",
"jolts",
"shakes",
"shakes up",
"amazes",
"astounds",
"awes",
"chills",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"dispirits",
"emasculates",
"psychs (out)",
"undoes",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"unstrings",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"steels"
],
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"reassures"
]
},
"type":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
],
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"grimaces",
"mouths",
"mugs"
],
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"pouts",
"contorts",
"deforms",
"twists",
"warps",
"frowns",
"glares",
"glooms",
"glowers",
"lowers",
"lours",
"scowls",
"gapes",
"gazes",
"ogles",
"stares",
"growls",
"snarls",
"sneers",
"simpers",
"smirks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"grins",
"smiles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making good on":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
],
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"answering",
"completing",
"complying (with)",
"filling",
"fulfilling",
"keeping",
"meeting",
"redeeming",
"satisfying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"consummating",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"perfecting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing about",
"bringing off",
"carrying out",
"effecting",
"committing",
"compassing",
"discharging",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"making",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulting (on)",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"transgressing",
"violating"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make it":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"His parents convinced him that he could make it in anything he chose to do if he worked hard enough."
],
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"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making a comeback":{
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"examples":[
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncing (back)",
"coming back",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"snapping back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reanimating",
"revitalizing",
"reviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"failing",
"worsening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes use of":{
"to put into action or service":{
"examples":[
"We made use of a waterproof camera to photograph undersea life."
],
"synonyms":[
"applies",
"employs",
"exercises",
"exploits",
"harnesses",
"operates",
"uses",
"utilizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handles",
"manipulates",
"wields",
"directs",
"runs",
"works",
"cannibalizes",
"recycles",
"reuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignores",
"neglects",
"misapplies",
"misuses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes tracks":{
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"The frightened cat made tracks into the other room when guests began to arrive."
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs",
"runs away",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"lights out",
"makes off",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"You'd better make tracks if you want to catch that bus!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makings":{
"the basic elements from which something can be developed":{
"examples":[
"she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first"
],
"synonyms":[
"material",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"substance",
"timber"
],
"near synonyms":[
"possibility",
"potential",
"potentiality",
"matter",
"metal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"makes it (through)":{
"to come safely through":{
"examples":[
"He made it through the serious illness with few lasting effects.",
"The company will be lucky to make it through another year with all the money it's losing."
],
"synonyms":[
"rides (out)",
"weathers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlasts",
"outlives",
"wears out",
"pulls through",
"abides",
"continues",
"endures",
"hangs on",
"holds on",
"holds out",
"holds up",
"lasts",
"leads",
"persists",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"survives",
"withstands",
"breathes",
"exists",
"is",
"lives",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croaks",
"deceases",
"departs",
"dies",
"expires",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"perishes",
"succumbs",
"disappears",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"vanishes",
"ceases",
"ends",
"stops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making sport of":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"The commentator often makes sport of the fashion choices of the famous."
],
"synonyms":[
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"laughing (at)",
"mocking",
"ridiculing",
"scouting",
"shooting down",
"skewering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"sneering (at)",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"disparaging",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"putting down",
"chaffing",
"jiving",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"quizzing",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"riding",
"teasing",
"tweaking",
"twitting",
"baiting",
"barracking",
"bugging",
"catcalling",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"hassling",
"heckling",
"needling",
"pestering",
"ragging",
"targeting",
"taunting",
"tormenting",
"aping",
"burlesquing",
"caricaturing",
"imitating",
"lampooning",
"mimicking",
"parodying",
"parroting",
"pillorying",
"satirizing",
"taking off (on)",
"travestying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauding",
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making off with":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The robbers made off with the family's jewelry and electronics, among other things."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"The kidnappers made off with their victim without being seen."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"crimping",
"impressing",
"seizing",
"shanghaiing",
"waylaying",
"absconding (with)",
"snatching",
"spiriting",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"catching",
"copping",
"stealing",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivering",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"restoring",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makeovers":{
"as in transformations , modifications":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alterations",
"conversions",
"modifications",
"refits",
"revisions",
"transformations",
"attunements",
"corrections",
"harmonizations",
"readaptations",
"readjustments",
"acclimations",
"acclimatizations",
"accommodations",
"adaptations",
"adaptions",
"adjustments",
"conformations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maladaptations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"making fun of":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"It's cruel to make fun of other people's imperfections."
],
"synonyms":[
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"laughing (at)",
"mocking",
"ridiculing",
"scouting",
"shooting down",
"skewering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"sneering (at)",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"disparaging",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"putting down",
"chaffing",
"jiving",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"quizzing",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"riding",
"teasing",
"tweaking",
"twitting",
"baiting",
"barracking",
"bugging",
"catcalling",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"hassling",
"heckling",
"needling",
"pestering",
"ragging",
"targeting",
"taunting",
"tormenting",
"aping",
"burlesquing",
"caricaturing",
"imitating",
"lampooning",
"mimicking",
"parodying",
"parroting",
"pillorying",
"satirizing",
"taking off (on)",
"travestying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauding",
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes eyes (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"I think that girl over there is making eyes at you."
],
"synonyms":[
"leers (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eyes",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gazes",
"glares",
"goggles",
"ogles",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making off":{
"as in getting out , getting (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring",
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makes ducks and drakes of":{
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fiddles away",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"loses",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"trifles (away)",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurges",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"overspends",
"shoots",
"indulges",
"overindulges",
"disburses",
"expends",
"lays out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizes",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserves"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"makes port":{
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"They made port near a small waterfront town and had lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"anchors",
"docks",
"lands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berths",
"moors",
"ties up",
"beaches",
"grounds",
"harbors",
"arrives",
"reaches",
"shows up",
"turns up",
"debarks",
"disembarks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarks",
"launches",
"sails"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make good for":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
],
"synonyms":[
"atone (for)",
"expiate",
"mend",
"redeem"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensate",
"recompense",
"reimburse",
"remunerate",
"repay",
"amend",
"correct",
"rectify",
"redress",
"propitiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes good":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
],
"synonyms":[
"answers",
"completes",
"complies (with)",
"fills",
"fulfills",
"keeps",
"meets",
"redeems",
"satisfies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"consummates",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"perfects",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings about",
"brings off",
"carries out",
"effects",
"commits",
"compasses",
"discharges",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"makes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaults (on)",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"transgresses",
"violates"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makers":{
"someone or something that makes something (such as a manufactured product)":{
"examples":[
"Auto makers will have to ensure that their vehicles meet the new emissions standards."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"builders",
"manufacturers",
"producers",
"factories",
"manufactories",
"mills",
"plants",
"shops",
"works",
"workshops",
"creators",
"conceivers",
"contrivers",
"designers",
"devisers",
"formulators",
"innovators",
"introducers",
"inventors",
"spawners",
"distributors",
"providers",
"provisioners",
"purveyors",
"suppliers",
"architects",
"engineers",
"masterminds",
"artists",
"mechanics",
"operatives",
"shapers",
"smiths",
"wrights",
"craftswomen",
"journeymen",
"masters",
"handymen",
"handypeople",
"workmen",
"artificers",
"artisans",
"crafters",
"craftsmen",
"craftspeople",
"handcraftsmen",
"handicrafters",
"handicraftsmen",
"handworkers",
"tradesmen",
"cocreators",
"co-creators",
"cofounders",
"co-founders",
"developers",
"pioneers",
"researchers",
"researchists",
"authors",
"begetters",
"establishers",
"fathers",
"founders",
"founding fathers",
"generators",
"inaugurators",
"initiators",
"instituters",
"institutors",
"originators",
"sires"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"make one's flesh creep":{
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"terrorize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"bowl over",
"dismay",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shake",
"shake up",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"psych (out)",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"steel"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassure"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"making believe":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"bluffing",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
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"They made their mark on the scientific world with a groundbreaking discovery."
],
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"succeed",
"thrive"
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"win",
"excel"
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"struggle"
],
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"There were many applicants for the position, but only a few made the grade for an interview."
],
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"flourishes",
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"succeeds",
"thrives"
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"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
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"flounders",
"struggles"
],
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"fails"
]
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"unplugs",
"unstops",
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"helps",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
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"furthers",
"promotes"
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"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
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"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
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"obstructs",
"shackles",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels",
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties"
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"verb"
]
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"the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday"
],
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"cancels (out)",
"compensates (for)",
"corrects",
"counteracts",
"counterbalances",
"counterpoises",
"negatives",
"neutralizes",
"offsets"
],
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"negates",
"neuters",
"nullifies",
"atones (for)",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"redeems",
"redresses",
"relieves",
"remedies",
"overrides",
"overrules"
],
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"verb"
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"the book is made up of 20 chapters"
],
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"compose",
"comprise",
"constitute",
"form"
],
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"epitomize",
"incarnate",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"materialize",
"personify",
"substantiate",
"complement",
"complete",
"supplement",
"fill (out)",
"flesh (out)"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project"
],
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"concoct",
"construct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"drum up",
"excogitate",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"trump up",
"vamp (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coin",
"design",
"hatch",
"produce",
"daydream",
"dream",
"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"envision",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked \"some assembly required\""
],
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"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"piece",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenter",
"fashion",
"forge",
"frame",
"hammer",
"handcraft",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"prefabricate",
"begin",
"coin",
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"reassemble",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"redevelop",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"jerry-build",
"rig (up)",
"throw up",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"flatten",
"level",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"ruinate",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
]
},
"preparations intended to beautify the face":{
"examples":[
"she never left the house without applying her makeup and arranging her jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"cosmetics",
"maquillage",
"paint",
"war paint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greasepaint",
"camo",
"camouflage",
"cold cream",
"cream",
"eye shadow",
"kohl",
"lipstick",
"lotion",
"mascara",
"oil",
"powder",
"rouge",
"vanishing cream"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged":{
"examples":[
"the makeup of the memorial is strikingly simple: a single massive globe signifying world unity"
],
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"arrangement",
"composition",
"configuration",
"constellation",
"design",
"form",
"format",
"getup",
"layout",
"ordonnance",
"pattern"
],
"near synonyms":[
"motif",
"theme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"making up":{
"to be all the substance of":{
"examples":[
"the book is made up of 20 chapters"
],
"synonyms":[
"composing",
"comprising",
"constituting",
"forming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embodying",
"epitomizing",
"incarnating",
"incorporating",
"integrating",
"materializing",
"personifying",
"substantiating",
"complementing",
"completing",
"supplementing",
"filling (out)",
"fleshing (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project"
],
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"concocting",
"constructing",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"drumming up",
"excogitating",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"manufacturing",
"thinking (up)",
"trumping up",
"vamping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coining",
"designing",
"hatching",
"producing",
"daydreaming",
"dreaming",
"fantasizing",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"visioning",
"visualizing",
"ad-libbing",
"extemporizing",
"improvising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloning",
"copycatting",
"copying",
"duplicating",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"reduplicating",
"replicating",
"reproducing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked \"some assembly required\""
],
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"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"fabricating",
"making",
"piecing",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentering",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"framing",
"hammering",
"handcrafting",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"prefabricating",
"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",
"retrofitting",
"jerry-building",
"rigging (up)",
"throwing up",
"combining",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruinating",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"They made their mark on the scientific world with a groundbreaking discovery."
],
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"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving",
"coming into one's own",
"cutting it",
"cutting the mustard",
"getting ahead",
"getting somewhere",
"getting there",
"hacking it",
"hitting it big",
"making good",
"making it",
"making the grade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes shift":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"They were able to make shift without borrowing money."
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes good (for)":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
],
"synonyms":[
"atones (for)",
"expiates",
"mends",
"redeems"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensates",
"recompenses",
"reimburses",
"remunerates",
"repays",
"amends",
"corrects",
"rectifies",
"redresses",
"propitiates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making amends (for)":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
],
"synonyms":[
"atoning (for)",
"expiating",
"mending",
"redeeming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensating",
"recompensing",
"reimbursing",
"remunerating",
"repaying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"propitiating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making a pretense":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"He didn't even make a pretense of appreciating her artwork."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"letting on",
"making out",
"pretending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"impersonating",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"feigning",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"bluffing",
"feinting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make-or-break":{
"resulting in either definite success or definite failure":{
"examples":[
"a make-or-break decision",
"The next year will be a make-or-break time for the company."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"go-no-go",
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"climacteric",
"climactic",
"apical",
"apogean",
"crestal",
"crowning",
"culminating",
"high",
"highest",
"meridian",
"critical",
"crossover",
"crucial",
"fateful",
"life-and-death",
"life-or-death",
"vital",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"earthshaking",
"epochal",
"momentous",
"deciding",
"decisive",
"payoff",
"pivotal",
"watershed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anticlimactic",
"anticlimactical",
"inconsequential",
"indecisive",
"insignificant",
"noncritical",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"making ends meet":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"The couple's income was just enough to make ends meet each month."
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"doing",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"making out",
"managing",
"shifting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes ends meet":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"The couple's income was just enough to make ends meet each month."
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making common cause":{
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"The managers attempted to make common cause between their departments to get the project done quickly and efficiently."
],
"synonyms":[
"banding (together)",
"collaborating",
"concerting",
"concurring",
"conjoining",
"conspiring",
"cooperating",
"joining",
"leaguing",
"teaming (up)",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conniving",
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"combining",
"confederating",
"hanging together",
"interfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes away with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"They made away with the baby in the middle of the night."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"crimps",
"impresses",
"kidnaps",
"seizes",
"shanghais",
"waylays",
"absconds (with)",
"snatches",
"spirits",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"catches",
"cops",
"steals",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivers",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"restores",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"The gangster's henchmen made away with several of his rivals."
],
"synonyms":[
"carries off",
"claims",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"fells",
"kills",
"slays",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumps off",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"finishes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"scrags",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"wastes",
"whacks",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"decimates",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows",
"slaughters",
"smites",
"assassinates",
"executes",
"martyrs",
"terminates",
"euthanizes",
"euthanatizes",
"puts down",
"suicides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives",
"nurtures"
],
"antonyms":[
"animates"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The thief made away with merchandise worth thousands of dollars."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make out":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"we're not rich, but we're making out all right"
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I can't quite make out what she is trying to say"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"perceive",
"recognize",
"register",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss"
]
},
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"he tried to make out that he didn't mind losing his job, but friends suspected he was desperately worried"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"let on",
"pretend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"affect",
"assume",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feign",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"bluff",
"feint"
],
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},
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"as best as I can make out , the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating"
],
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"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"derive",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"reason",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assume",
"suppose",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"speculate",
"surmise",
"construe",
"interpret",
"read",
"contemplate",
"philosophize",
"rationalize",
"think",
"ascertain",
"dope (out)",
"find out"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"make it (through)":{
"to come safely through":{
"examples":[
"He made it through the serious illness with few lasting effects.",
"The company will be lucky to make it through another year with all the money it's losing."
],
"synonyms":[
"ride (out)",
"weather"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlast",
"outlive",
"wear out",
"pull through",
"abide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hang on",
"hold on",
"hold out",
"hold up",
"last",
"lead",
"persist",
"stand",
"stick out",
"survive",
"withstand",
"be",
"breathe",
"exist",
"live",
"subsist",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croak",
"decease",
"depart",
"die",
"expire",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"perish",
"succumb",
"disappear",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"vanish",
"cease",
"end",
"stop"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make off":{
"as in get out , get (away)":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr",
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"makeups":{
"preparations intended to beautify the face":{
"examples":[
"she never left the house without applying her makeup and arranging her jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"cosmetics",
"maquillages",
"paints",
"war paints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greasepaints",
"camos",
"camouflages",
"cold creams",
"creams",
"eye shadows",
"kohls",
"lipsticks",
"lotions",
"mascaras",
"oils",
"powders",
"rouges",
"vanishing creams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged":{
"examples":[
"the makeup of the memorial is strikingly simple: a single massive globe signifying world unity"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrangements",
"compositions",
"configurations",
"constellations",
"designs",
"formats",
"forms",
"getups",
"layouts",
"ordonnances",
"patterns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"motifs",
"themes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"make much of":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"He made much of the one study that supported his argument."
],
"synonyms":[
"accent",
"accentuate",
"emphasize",
"feature",
"foreground",
"highlight",
"illuminate",
"play up",
"point (up)",
"press",
"punctuate",
"stress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focus",
"identify",
"pinpoint",
"spotlight",
"advertise",
"boost",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"overplay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tone (down)",
"underemphasize",
"understate",
"belittle",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasize",
"play down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make good (for)":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
],
"synonyms":[
"atone (for)",
"expiate",
"mend",
"redeem"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensate",
"recompense",
"reimburse",
"remunerate",
"repay",
"amend",
"correct",
"rectify",
"redress",
"propitiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make do":{
"as in backup , alternate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"backup",
"jackleg",
"makeshift",
"proxy",
"stopgap",
"substitute",
"acting",
"ad interim",
"interim",
"provisional",
"provisionary",
"provisory",
"temporary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"long-term",
"permanent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"She could make do just fine and didn't need anyone's help."
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"phrase"
]
},
"make-do":{
"as in backup , alternate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"backup",
"jackleg",
"makeshift",
"proxy",
"stopgap",
"substitute",
"acting",
"ad interim",
"interim",
"provisional",
"provisionary",
"provisory",
"temporary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"long-term",
"permanent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"She could make do just fine and didn't need anyone's help."
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"phrase"
]
},
"making faces":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimacing",
"mouthing",
"mugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouting",
"contorting",
"deforming",
"twisting",
"warping",
"frowning",
"glaring",
"glooming",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"gaping",
"gazing",
"ogling",
"staring",
"growling",
"snarling",
"sneering",
"simpering",
"smirking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"grinning",
"smiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make a pretense":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"He didn't even make a pretense of appreciating her artwork."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"let on",
"make out",
"pretend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"affect",
"assume",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feign",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"bluff",
"feint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making good":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"He made good on his promise to pay back the loan within a year."
],
"synonyms":[
"answering",
"completing",
"complying (with)",
"filling",
"fulfilling",
"keeping",
"meeting",
"redeeming",
"satisfying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"consummating",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"perfecting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing about",
"bringing off",
"carrying out",
"effecting",
"committing",
"compassing",
"discharging",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"making",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulting (on)",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"transgressing",
"violating"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"She made good as a musician when she moved to New York City."
],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes faces":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"Her son made a face when she served him his broccoli."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimaces",
"mouths",
"mugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouts",
"contorts",
"deforms",
"twists",
"warps",
"frowns",
"glares",
"glooms",
"glowers",
"lowers",
"lours",
"scowls",
"gapes",
"gazes",
"ogles",
"stares",
"growls",
"snarls",
"sneers",
"simpers",
"smirks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"grins",
"smiles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making way":{
"as in opening , clearing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clearing",
"opening",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"facilitating",
"helping",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"loosening",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"furthering",
"promoting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clogging",
"cramping",
"embarrassing",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"handicapping",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"shackling",
"short-circuiting",
"stymieing",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"balking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"reining",
"restraining",
"binding",
"chaining",
"haltering",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"tying",
"tieing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"making good for":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
],
"synonyms":[
"atoning (for)",
"expiating",
"mending",
"redeeming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensating",
"recompensing",
"reimbursing",
"remunerating",
"repaying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"propitiating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make amends for":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
],
"synonyms":[
"atone (for)",
"expiate",
"mend",
"redeem"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensate",
"recompense",
"reimburse",
"remunerate",
"repay",
"amend",
"correct",
"rectify",
"redress",
"propitiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make believe":{
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"zoomed around the house in a make-believe car"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"as in pretense , likeness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affectation",
"demonstration",
"display",
"fiction",
"image",
"imitation",
"imposture",
"likeness",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"representation",
"simulation",
"hint",
"implication",
"insinuation",
"resemblance",
"suggestion",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"exterior",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"gloss",
"mask",
"masquerade",
"patina",
"Potemkin village",
"shape",
"shell",
"surface",
"veneer",
"air",
"effect",
"impression",
"appearance",
"face",
"guise",
"name",
"outward",
"seeming",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"He made believe he was sick to get out of going to school."
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"phrase"
]
},
"make over":{
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
"examples":[
"the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center"
],
"synonyms":[
"alchemize",
"convert",
"metamorphose",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute",
"transpose",
"transubstantiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjust",
"alter",
"modify",
"recast",
"redefine",
"redesign",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"regenerate",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary",
"deform",
"disfigure",
"distort",
"mutate",
"transmogrify",
"displace",
"replace",
"substitute",
"supplant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
"examples":[
"made the deed over to his daughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"alien",
"alienate",
"assign",
"cede",
"convey",
"deed",
"transfer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bequeath",
"hand down",
"leave",
"pass (down)",
"will",
"bestow",
"commend",
"commit",
"confer",
"contribute",
"deliver",
"donate",
"grant",
"hand over",
"move",
"pass",
"present",
"release",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"transmit",
"turn in",
"turn over",
"vest",
"yield",
"consign",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"trust",
"lease",
"lend",
"let",
"loan",
"rent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expropriate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter",
"change",
"modify",
"recast",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deform",
"metamorphose",
"mutate",
"regenerate",
"revolutionize",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute",
"commute",
"convert",
"exchange",
"rejigger",
"retool"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fix",
"freeze",
"set",
"stabilize"
]
},
"as in transformation , modification":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alteration",
"conversion",
"modification",
"refit",
"revision",
"transformation",
"attunement",
"correction",
"harmonization",
"readaptation",
"readjustment",
"acclimation",
"acclimatization",
"accommodation",
"adaptation",
"adaption",
"adjustment",
"conformation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maladaptation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"making good (for)":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"He was committed to making good for his past mistakes."
],
"synonyms":[
"atoning (for)",
"expiating",
"mending",
"redeeming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensating",
"recompensing",
"reimbursing",
"remunerating",
"repaying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"propitiating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"maker":{
"someone or something that makes something (such as a manufactured product)":{
"examples":[
"Auto makers will have to ensure that their vehicles meet the new emissions standards."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"builder",
"manufacturer",
"producer",
"factory",
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"shop",
"works",
"workshop",
"creator",
"conceiver",
"contriver",
"designer",
"deviser",
"formulator",
"innovator",
"introducer",
"inventor",
"spawner",
"distributor",
"provider",
"provisioner",
"purveyor",
"supplier",
"architect",
"engineer",
"mastermind",
"artist",
"mechanic",
"operative",
"shaper",
"smith",
"wright",
"craftswoman",
"journeyman",
"master",
"handyman",
"handyperson",
"workman",
"artificer",
"artisan",
"crafter",
"craftsman",
"craftsperson",
"handcraftsman",
"handicrafter",
"handicraftsman",
"handworker",
"tradesman",
"cocreator",
"cofounder",
"developer",
"pioneer",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"author",
"begetter",
"establisher",
"father",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us give thanks to our Maker for this meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"making eyes (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"I think that girl over there is making eyes at you."
],
"synonyms":[
"leering (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eyeing",
"eying",
"gaping",
"gawking",
"gazing",
"glaring",
"goggling",
"ogling",
"peering",
"rubbernecking",
"staring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making amends for":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
],
"synonyms":[
"atoning (for)",
"expiating",
"mending",
"redeeming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensating",
"recompensing",
"reimbursing",
"remunerating",
"repaying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"propitiating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes amends (for)":{
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"She decided it was time to make amends for the hurt she had caused her family."
],
"synonyms":[
"atones (for)",
"expiates",
"mends",
"redeems"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensates",
"recompenses",
"reimburses",
"remunerates",
"repays",
"amends",
"corrects",
"rectifies",
"redresses",
"propitiates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make off with":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The robbers made off with the family's jewelry and electronics, among other things."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"The kidnappers made off with their victim without being seen."
],
"synonyms":[
"abduct",
"kidnap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"crimp",
"impress",
"seize",
"shanghai",
"waylay",
"abscond (with)",
"snatch",
"spirit",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"catch",
"cop",
"steal",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliver",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"restore",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"making tracks":{
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"The frightened cat made tracks into the other room when guests began to arrive."
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"You'd better make tracks if you want to catch that bus!"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"makes it":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"His parents convinced him that he could make it in anything he chose to do if he worked hard enough."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"make eyes (at)":{
"to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way":{
"examples":[
"I think that girl over there is making eyes at you."
],
"synonyms":[
"leer (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eye",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gaze",
"glare",
"goggle",
"ogle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
}
}