Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards. 2 (context idiomatic English) To tend to produce or result in. 3 (context idiomatic rare English) To confirm, favour, strengthen (an opinion, theory, etc.). 4 (&lit make for English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "make for".
Vetch suggests that Oyster Bay cannot be far to the eastward--the line of ocean is deceitfully close--and though such a proceeding will take them out of their course, they resolve to make for it.
Once outside the Bar, he would make for the westward, in the hopes of falling in with some whaler.
From his solitary rock he had watched the boat pass him and make for the Ladybird in the channel, and he had decided--with that curious childishness into which the mind relapses on such supreme occasions--that the moment when the gathering gloom swallowed her up, should be the moment when he would plunge into the surge below him.
Grimes was to make for himself another hut where the fire had been lighted on the previous night.
Despite the hypocritical grandiloquence and affected piety of the narrative, it was easy to see that, save some warping of facts to make for himself a better case, and to extol the courage of the gaolers who had him at their mercy, the narrator had not attempted to better his tale by the invention of perils.
He glanced over his shoulder through the glass door and saw Treverick make for the dining - room.
She felt she could withstand the food odor if she really tried and make for that bridge.
Christine, she can make a garden bear the year round, and with a snitch hook she's good as you'll ever see, and it don't make for bad living having a young wife grateful to you.
Illusion might make for fine appearance, texture, and taste, but it would not prevent her from starving.
Down-reef therewere splashes on the surface as still bigger fish tried to make for safety.
Down-reef there were splashes on the surface as still bigger fish tried to make for safety.