Other Words for Make

Make as a Noun has these synonyms:

build, assemble, construct, erect, put together, set up, fashion, form, mould, shape, frame, create, originate, fabricate, manufacture, produce, put out, forge, contrive, devise

Example: She makes her own dresses. They make TV sets here. The Colossus of Rhodes was said to be made of bronze.

cause, compel, force, impel, coerce, provoke, urge, exhort, press, pressure, require, command, order, induce, persuade, prevail upon, insist upon, oblige, pressurize

Example: The devil made me do it.

Make as a Verb has these synonyms:

amount to, constitute, represent, add up to, total, come to

Example: He knows how many beans make five. Three and two do not make four. One singer does not make an opera.

appoint, name, select, choose, elect, vote (in as), designate, authorize, commission, delegate, depute, deputize, assign, sanction, approve, affirm, certify, confirm

Example: They made him their leader.

become, be, change or turn or grow into, perform as

Example: I think Quentin will make a brilliant surgeon one day.

bring about, occasion, cause, give rise to

Example: The new regulation is going to make trouble for you.

change, turn, alter, modify, transform, convert, transmute, mutate, metamorphose

Example: He made her into a star. The alchemists tried to make base metal into gold.

deliver, present

Example: Janet made a good speech.

do, go, travel or move at, move

Example: His old banger could hardly make 40 m.p.h.

earn, return, reap, garner, take in, get, procure, gather, clear, realize, gross, net, pocket, acquire, obtain, receive, win, gain, pull down

Example: Has her invention made money? He makes a good living out of his shop. He made $25 playing poker.

enact, pass, frame, establish, institute

Example: He thinks that laws were made to be broken.

fetch, realize, earn, return

Example: The locket made $1000 at the auction.

judge, think, calculate, estimate, reckon, gauge, suppose

Example: What do you make of Sidney's new book? .

kind, brand, style, sort, type, mark

Example: Foreign makes of car currently dominate the market-place.

make out or up, draw (up), create, write, sign, frame

Example: I made a new will leaving everything to my children.

prepare, arrange, rearrange, tidy (up), neaten (up)

Example: You have made your bed, now you will have to lie on it.

prepare, fix, cook

Example: I made what you like for dinner.

produce, cause, create, generate

Example: The engine made a funny noise, then died.

reach, arrive at, attain, get (to), win, achieve, accomplish, come in, be placed, place

Example: Fran might make first place in the marathon.

record, arrange, fix, decide (on or upon), agree (to)

Example: I made an appointment to see the doctor.

score, earn, secure

Example: The West Indies made 654 in their first innings.

seduce, make it with

Example: Kenneth tried to make Sharon last night.

serve as or for, be suitable for, be, prove to be, turn out to be, turn into, become

Example: This cut of meat will not make a good roast.

traverse, cover, do, travel, navigate

Example: We cannot make more than 100 miles a day over this terrain.

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Vice Versa: conversely, contrariwise, to or on the contrary, reversed, the other way aroundconversely, contrariwise, to or on the contrary, reversed, the other way around