to make
- verb
- /meɪk/
- So I went and they made me his double.
- make-believe
Examples
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I was trying to make you seem like a good guy.
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Can we make up our own characters?
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Facts are important for your story, so be sure to make up good ones.
Academic text (2008) -
Oh, it's a story, a story I'm making up.
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But the point is, we don't need to make up excuses to hang out with each other.
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In the play, she made her character an adventurous pirate.
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He likes to make believe he is a famous actor in front of his friends.
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The comedian often makes up funny stories during his shows.
Synonyms
To act as if something is true when it is not
To pretend to be someone you are not to trick people
Pretend to be another person by copying their looks, voice or actions
To pretend or claim something is true when it is not
To pretend to be someone else to hide the truth
Pretend to have qualities or feelings you do not have
Pretend to have a feeling to trick people
To make something or someone look real when they are not
Pretend something is real for fun or play
Act as if you are someone or something imaginary
Pretend to be another person to trick people or act in a role
Idioms
- Informal
To get noticed for your work in an area, for example in art or business
- Informal
Decide or think of things during a situation without planning ahead
- Offensive
To act in a way that makes you look foolish in front of others
- Informal
To leave someone feeling overwhelmed or confused by too much information
- Informal
Treat a small problem as if it were very serious
- Offensive
Make someone look silly in front of other people by tricking or embarrassing them
- Informal
To cause someone to feel confused or overwhelmed by too much information
The most important thing that makes life keep going, like money or love
- Archaic
To marry a woman, often after a romantic or sexual relationship, to make the relationship legal and respected
- Offensive
To do something that makes both people look foolish
Phrasal Verbs
Do something kind for someone to show you are sorry for making them unhappy
To give up something important to help other people or reach a long-term goal
Compounds
How Convincing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Make comes from the Old English macian, which meant 'to do'. So to make like a singer or to make superheroes is to 'do' the actions of that person and so to pretend or act as if.