Crossword clues for make do
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive idiomatic informal English) to survive, get by with, or use whatever is available (due to lack of resources) 2 (context transitive informal English) to put into action 3 (context transitive informal English) To use for one's purpose something worn, defective, or intended for another purpose.
WordNet
Usage examples of "make do".
They would make do somehow, though caring for a horse had not been in their plans.
During the last couple of years there have been several manuals circulating among the subversive underground: bomb cookbooks that make do-it-yourselfing sound easy.
But at Level 3 they had to make do with their unaugmented human eyesight.
She wished for a true arctic assault suit, but realized she had to make do with what she had.
Latecomers will have to make do with shoe blacking or browning as the case may be.
We may fear that our team will lose the game, or that the caramel crop will fail and we will have to make do with taffy and licorice for a year.
The water would always be clean, unlike those whose territories were bunched along rivers and had to make do with water contaminated from upstream.
As it is the screens turn their blind eyes towards him, so he has to make do with the real thing, just a slice of it, tangerine, then flamingo, then watered-down blood, then strawberry ice cream, off to the side of where the sun must be.
Course, he had no formal training himself, so he always had to make do with defenseless women and children.
This him was forced to make do with fuzzy, distant contact with a choo mind, forced to burble like a child through clumsy, incoherent communicative acts, denied the flowing, liquid beauty of Shell linguaception.