to make love
296
5.3
- phrasal verb
- /meɪk lʌv/
- NSFW
:
hacer el amor
- - I want to make love to my wife!
- never make love
I mean, we hug and we kiss and Make Love and that's great.
- I mean, we hug and we kiss and Make Love and that's great.
- Yeah, 'cause I'm definitely going to think that you made love to my wife if you said that.
- And he says, I only wanted to Make Love to you.
- It was more like she was the guy and we'd Make Love and I want to cuddle and she's like OK done.
- I like to be very subtle, but I would love to Make Love to you at any point.
- I mean, we hug and we kiss and Make Love and it's great.
- When the two of you Make Love, you guys have sex.
- And then I remember the first night we made love.
- Listen, Daniel, never have I ever made love listening to one of my own records.
- If you're going to engage in an intimate act, make sure it's intimate, Make Love to them, make it count, make it special.
- I kind of enjoy making love, Right, Right.
- You know, you haven't lived unless you made love to an Anaconda.
- With passion, pray with passion, Make Love with passion, eat and drink and dance and play.
Examples
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For the reason people make love, Andrea suggested, the pure pleasure of the process.
Academic text (2008) -
Some people have really good marriages and make love a lot, and some make less.
Blog text (3) -
Do you understand if I want to Make Love to you, baby?
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And now thinking back we only made love once or twice every few weeks.
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I just want to make love to you
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We stay in this room, and we drink, and we make love.
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I get into my truck and go home, anxious to make love to my wife.
Fiction book (1990) -
I don't think anyone makes love better than you.
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And I've never made love to anybody before.
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I want to make love with you under the stars tonight.
Synonyms
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9.9
To have sex with someone
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3.0
To touch each other's private parts for physical pleasure
999
9.8
To have sex with someone
698
8.6
To have sex with another person
675
9.9
To have sex with someone
652
7.4
To have sex with someone
205
9.9
To have sex with someone, said as a rude word
125
9.3
To have sex with someone
95
9.9
To have sex with someone, usually in a short, casual way
69
7.4
Have sex with another person, often when not married
58
9.9
To have sex with someone, used as a rude word
23
8.1
To have sex with someone
16
7.9
Have sex with someone
12
9.0
To have sex with someone
6
9.1
To have sex with someone
5
5.1
To have physical contact with someone for pleasure, usually in a casual way
2
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone, used in informal British English
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
To have sex with someone
To have sex briefly in a casual way
How Intimate
- NSFW
296
5.3
- NSFW
69
7.4
- NSFW
132
8.7
- NSFW
130
8.1
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'make' (perform/create) plus the noun 'love' (affection) gives a plausible compositional sense of ‘performing an act of love’, and many languages use the same collocation (e.g. faire l'amour, hacer el amor), so learners can often infer the sexual/euphemistic meaning. However, the phrase is conventionalized and euphemistic (not literally 'create love'), so its precise meaning ('have sex') is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Make love began as a gentle way to talk about showing affection—literally to make or create love between two people. Over time this polite image became a softer way to say 'to have sex', so today make love usually means 'to have sex' with feeling or affection.