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                make

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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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