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    2 to obtain (as a goal) through effort
    • we finally made it!

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    4 to carry through (as a process) to completion
    • one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting

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    5 to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
    • made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around

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    6 to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement
    • I make that to be about six feet long

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    8 to give the impression of being
    • the family made merry despite their financial worries

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    9 to go on a specified course or in a certain direction
    • the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug

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    10 to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action
    • the legislature failed to make any new laws last session

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    11 to receive as return for effort
    • I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here

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    12 to have a clear idea of
    • what do you make of the latest information?

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    13 chiefly dialect to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening
    • make the gate when ye leave

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    “Make.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/make. Accessed 7 Jul. 2020.

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