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MAKE IT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Go successfully through a test or a selection process
Example:
She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now
Synonyms:
make it; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "make it" is one way to...):
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make it"):
ace; breeze through; nail; pass with flying colors; sail through; sweep through (succeed at easily)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Succeed in a big way; get to the top
Example:
You will go far, my boy!
Synonyms:
arrive; get in; go far; make it
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "make it" is one way to...):
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
Example:
He survived the cancer against all odds
Synonyms:
come through; make it; pull round; pull through; survive
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "make it" is one way to...):
defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)
"Make it" entails doing...:
convalesce; recover; recuperate (get over an illness or shock)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The business is going to make it
Context examples:
Make it last as long as you can, for it isn't very plenty, you know.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Rest and time may only make it worse.
(Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings; I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Autoantibodies can directly destroy cells that have the substances on them or can make it easier for other white blood cells to destroy them.
(Autoantibody, NCI Dictionary)
Stress caused by anxiety can also make it hard for you to breathe.
(Breathing Problems, NIH)
I am to get his report to-morrow if he can possibly make it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They don't make it up, don't create it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Did she make it clear why, on reaching her house, she ran into the back kitchen?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The story, so far as I can make it out, is like this.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If something negative should happen, you will be able to turn the tables on the situation and make it work for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
