“Make” Definition and Examples

Meaning of “Make”:

Make simply put means to produce something. The definition of make means to cause something to be formed, or to alter something into a specific condition. It could also mean to cause, force, to start something, or to understand as a meaning.

Examples:

• I had to make a fire from dried grass since I couldn’t find any wood in this dense forest.
• The chef has to make a dessert out of candies for the competition.
• You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Other Words for “Make”

Widely used synonyms for “Make”.

• Assemble
• Build
• Construct
• Create
• Fabricate
• Form
• Manufacture
• Produce
• Put together
• Shape

The large list of 195+ different words to use instead of “make”.

• Able
• Access
• Achieve
• Address
• Advance
• Allow
• Alter
• Arrive
• Assemble
• Attain
• Back
• Bear
• Beat
• Benefit
• Better
• Bring
• Build
• Care
• Carry out
• Catch
• Cause
• Change
• Choose
• Clear
• Collect
• Come
• Come forward
• Complete
• Conclude
• Constitute
• Constrain
• Construct
• Contribute
• Contrive
• Convert
• Cook
• Correct
• Create
• Derive
• Design
• Develop
• Doing
• Draft
• Draw
• Draw up
• Drive
• Drop
• Earn
• Effectuate
• Enable
• Enforce
• Engender
• Enhance
• Ensure
• Erect
• Establish
• Execute
• Extend
• Fabricate
• Face
• Fashion
• Fetch
• File
• Film
• Find
• Finish
• Fire
• Fix
• Forge
• Form
• Gain
• Get
• Get ready
• Give
• Go
• Grab
• Grow
• Happen
• Have
• Hold
• Impel
• Implement
• Improve
• Increase
• Indicate
• Induce
• Initiate
• Invent
• Issue
• Join
• Just
• Keep
• Know
• Label
• Lead
• Learn
• Leave
• Letting
• Like
• Live
• Look
• Make up
• Manage
• Manufacture
• Mark
• Meet
• Mold
• Move
• Need
• Net
• Oblige
• Obtain
• Occur
• Offer
• Open
• Operate
• Order
• Organize
• Originate
• Output
• Pass
• Perform
• Persuade
• Pick up
• Place
• Play
• Point
• Prep
• Prepare
• Press
• Proceed
• Produce
• Profit
• Progress
• Provide
• Provoke
• Pull
• Push
• Put
• Put together
• Quit
• Reach
• Ready
• Realise
• Rebuild
• Receive
• Remove
• Render
• Repair
• Represent
• Result
• Return
• Save
• Score
• Secure
• Seem
• Send
• Sensitization
• Sensitizing
• Set
• Set up
• Settle
• Shall
• Shape
• Shoot
• Show
• Sort
• Stamp
• Start
• Stop
• Strengthen
• Structure
• Style
• Subject
• Submit
• Support
• Survive
• Switch
• Table
• Take
• Take in
• Talk
• Tell
• Throw
• Train
• Transform
• Turn
• Type
• Upgrade
• Urge
• Wear
• Win
• Work
• Work up
• Worry
• Write
• Yield

Synonyms for Make with Examples

Learn make synonym examples in English.

• Assemble

The shelves are easy to assemble.

• Build

They have permission to build 200 new houses.

• Construct

Use your protractor to construct an equilateral triangle.

• Create

You can create something more glorious than the championship.

• Fabricate

They plan to fabricate a cinema next year.

• Form

 This document will form the basis for our discussion.

• Manufacture

Plants use the sun’s light to manufacture their food.

• Produce

A scientist must produce evidence in support of a theory.

• Put together

I think we can put together a very strong case for the defence.

• Shape

These events helped to shape her future career.

More make synonym examples in English:

• Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
• Fortune is good to him who knows to make good use of her.
• A ragged colt may make a good horse.
• Don’t have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
• The habit [cowl, hood] does not make the monk.
• If you have no hand, you cannot make a fist.
• Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.
• Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.