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MAKE DO
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
Example:
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
Synonyms:
contend; cope; deal; get by; grapple; make do; make out; manage
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
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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