MAKE DO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make do mean? 

• MAKE DO (verb)
  The verb MAKE DO has 1 sense:

1. succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

  Familiarity information: MAKE DO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE DO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

contend; cope; deal; get by; grapple; make do; make out; manage

Context example:

They made do on half a loaf of bread every day

Hypernyms (to "make do" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make do"):

extemporize; improvise (manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand)

fend (try to manage without help)

cut; hack (be able to manage or manage successfully)

rub along; scrape along; scrape by; scratch along; squeak by; squeeze by (manage one's existence barely)

Sentence frames:

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