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synonyms for make do

  • alternative
  • expedient
  • make-do
  • stopgap
  • substitute
  • temp
  • throwaway
  • Band-Aid
  • hit-or-miss
  • provisional
  • quick-and-dirty
  • slapdash

antonyms for make do

MOST RELEVANT
  • complete
  • finished
  • permanent
  • ready
  • enduring
  • lasting
  • lengthy
  • long-lived
  • permanent
  • long
  • unabridged
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          How to use make do in a sentence

          And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
          THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
          She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
          BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF; A PRACTICAL PLAN OF CHARACTER BUILDING, VOLUME I (OF 17)VARIOUS
          Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
          CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
          Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
          THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
          Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.
          CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
          It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.
          THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOE
          Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
          CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
          The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.
          CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
          Fanning and Wharton were to make head against the infantry and cavalry.
          BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
          The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
          THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
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          WORDS RELATED TO MAKE DO

          • eke out existence
          • look after
          • make do
          • make provision for
          • provide for
          • stay alive
          • subsist
          • support
          • survive
          • sustain
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