Synonyms for make
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Get — to have sexual intercourse with
do, take, have, realize, realise UK, get to, give, take in, reach, bring in, find, earn, bring about, go, bring to pass, be, hit, turn into, attain, require, gain, become, arrive at
2. Create — to create. To build, construct, produce, or originate
create, build, produce, construct, fabricate, form, forme US, generate, manufacture, put up, turn, compose, raise, show, organize, organise UK, assemble, invent, fashion, forge, concoct, evolve, figure dated, shape rare UK
4. Take a shit
take a shit vulgar informal, take a crap vulgar slang
Definitions
- v. 1
To create. To build, construct, produce, or originate.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
- v. 2
To have sexual intercourse with.
- v. 3
To create. To write or compose.
I made a poem for her wedding.
- v. 4
To create. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
Related words
- Word family
- makebate make-believe make-debate make-fray makegame make-peace make-ready make-sport
- Phrases
- make-out make-up make love make fun of make known make-over make it make little of
- Is a kind of
- creation
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Make is essentially causative; to the idea of cause all its various senses may be traced (compare synonyms for CAUSE). Similarly, to cause a voluntary agent to do a certain act is to make him do it, or compel him to do it, compel fixing the attention more on the process, make on the accomplished fact.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- have You need not have helped my son with his homework.
- realize I realize I don't actually really need a sailboat.
- build It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
- create New GATT resolutions could create a real shake-up.
By length
- 2 letters
- be1, do1, go1
- 3 letters
- hit1, fix1
- 4 letters
- have1, work1, take1, find1, give1, show1, form1, turn1, gain1, draw1, cook1, earn1
- 5 letters
- ready2, build1, reach1, catch1, raise1, shape1, forge1, forme
- 6 letters
- become2, figure2, create2, notice2, reduce2, evolve2, render2, attain2, invent2
- 7 letters
- realize3, require3, produce2, fashion2, prepare2, realise3, pretend2, compose2, concoct2
- 8 letters
- generate3, organize3, assemble3, organise
- 9 letters
- establish3, construct2, interfere3, fabricate3
- 10 letters
- constitute3
- 11 letters
- manufacture4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ready2 = 2 syllables).