Phrasal Verbs with MAKE in English
Make [meɪk] is a regular verb. Phrasal verbs with “make” include:
- make away (with)
- The police gave chase, but the thieves made away with the jewels
- make for
- They made for the nearest bar
- make into
- Can you make this dress into a skirt?
- The movie made her into a star overnight
- make of
- What do you make of her proposal?
- What do you make of the idea?
- make off
- The burglars made off before the police arrived
- They made off without paying
- make off with
- The looters made off with all the laptops that were in the computer store
- make out
- I can’t make out what the name on the bill is
- When you make out the bill, please give me a copy
- How did you make out on the test yesterday?
- make over
- Before their uncle died he made over his whole estate to them
- make up
- Ron made up an excuse so his mother wouldn’t be mad
- My son asked me to make up a story about monsters
- make up to
- We must make up to her for what we’ve done
- make up for
- You ‘II have to work very hard today to make up for the time you wasted yesterday
- make up for sth
- The wonderful food in the restaurant made up for the rather uncomfortable seats
- make up something
- Why would he make up something that would undermine his credibility?
- make it up to sb
- I forgot Teresa’s birthday yesterday so I’ll have to take her somewhere nice to make it up to her.