The Collaborative International Dictionary
Make \Make\ (m[=a]k), v. i.
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To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make. [Obs.]
A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.
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To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
Note: Formerly, authors used to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make away, to make for, to make off, to make toward, etc.
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To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.
--M. Arnold.Follow after the things which make for peace.
--Rom. xiv. 19.Considerations infinite Do make against it.
--Shak. To increase; to augment; to accrue.
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To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Tennyson. To solace him some time, as I do when I make. --P. Plowman. To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.). Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. --Josh. viii. 15. My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. --Latimer. To make at, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack. To make away with.
To carry off.
To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate.
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To kill; to destroy. To make off, to go away suddenly. To make out, to succeed; to manage oneself; to be able at last; to make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties; after the earthquake they made out all right. (b) to engage in fond caresses; to hug and kiss; to neck; -- of courting couples or individuals (for individuals, used with with); as, they made out on a bench in the park; he was making out with the waitress in the kitchen [informal] To make up, to become reconciled or friendly. To make up for, to compensate for; to supply an equivalent for. To make up to.
To approach; as, a suspicious boat made up to us.
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To pay addresses to; to make love to.
To make up with, to become reconciled to. [Colloq.]
To make with, to concur or agree with.
--Hooker.
Usage examples of "to make off".
On the other hand, her fellow Natives would sooner allow a thrice-cursed outlander like Wellcome Fisher to make off with the last living Bowman than they'd ever dream of interfering directly in someone else's personal matters.
One of them gripped in its talons a tiny furry creature like a short-eared rabbit and tried to make off with its prey, but the others moved in to battle.
Contingency magics guard those who can cast them-or afford the services of other casters-against death and calamity, and even the lowliest wizards paint impressive but powerless symbols on things and cast magic mouth spells in profusion in an attempt to cow would-be thieves into seeking safer goods to make off with, A definitive guide to all traps and wards used by mages-from the glowing but false spellbook that is the counterweight of a falling bag of boulders to the chain contingency-linked multiple meteor swarms of certain archmages' tombs that slaughter intruders in entire networks of false burial chambers--is something I doubt any mortal could pen.
I turned quickly and just in time to catch this fellow trying to make off with my pocketbook.