n. a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?"

n. the act of mixing cards haphazardly

v. act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies"

v. behave in a certain way; "make merry"

v. gather and light the materials for; "make a fire"

v. form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum"

v. constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man"

v. be or be capable of being changed or made into; "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father"

v. to compile a multi-module program

v. give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"

v. put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room"

v. make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?"

v. create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"

v. create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"

v. compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"

v. make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"

v. institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"

v. give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"

v. make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

v. reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade"

v. achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"

v. act so as to bring into existence; "effect a change"

v. to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"

v. prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"

v. organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"

v. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"

v. reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

v. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"

adv. "The team played hard"

adv. "Prejudices die hard"

adv. indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"

adv. "hard left"

adv. causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

adj. resisting weight or pressure

adj. dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";

adj. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

adj. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

adj. being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

adj. formed by the coalescence of particles

adj. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"

adj. very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"

adj. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

v. plan in detail; "Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein"

v. elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter"

v. make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy"

v. make a map of; show or establish the features of details of; "map the surface of Venus"

v. make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"

v. create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"

v. arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"

v. put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"

v. to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"

v. impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"

v. make up something artificial or untrue

v. make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"

v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

v. create again

v. form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

v. succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!"

v. be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

v. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"

v. draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

v. make a blueprint of

v. create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

v. have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"

v. have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master's degree from Harvard"

v. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea

v. seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball

v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

v. assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence; "I assured him that traveling to Cambodia was safe"

v. make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product"

v. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"

v. induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money"

v. direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"

v. call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"

v. impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"

v. move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

v. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"

v. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

v. dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"

v. attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"

v. ask someone in a friendly way to do something

v. hold back

v. force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies"

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

v. reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"

v. cover a certain distance or advance beyond; "The drive carried to the green"

v. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!"

v. move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"

v. of a car; "The van pulled up"

v. travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"

v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

v. to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"

v. make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"

v. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"

v. receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

v. attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"

v. poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"

v. cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"

v. deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"

v. yield as a net profit; "This sale netted me $1 million"

v. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

v. get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

adj. devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"

adj. difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

adj. requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"

adj. not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic"

adj. highly complex or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

adj. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

adj. not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone"

adj. lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"

adj. marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans"

adj. sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "a rugged trapper who spent months in the wilderness"; "those that survive are stalwart rugged men"; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"

adj. very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"

adj. formed by the coalescence of particles

adj. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

adj. in an extreme degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"

adj. sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "a rugged trapper who spent months in the wilderness"; "those that survive are stalwart rugged men"; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"

adj. possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles"

adj. in an extreme degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

adj. not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"

adj. not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic"

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

adj. impressively difficult; "a tall order"

adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

adj. full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"

adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"

adj. causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"

adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"

adj. disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

adj. severely simple; "a stark interior"

adj. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"

adv. with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm"

adv. in a rich manner; "he lives high"

adj. of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state"

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

adj. deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"

adj. having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating"

adj. not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"

adj. complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

adj. requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"

adj. requiring great physical effort

adj. dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

adj. badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"

adj. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port"

adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

adj. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

adj. exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"

adj. not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"

adj. having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

adj. severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"

adj. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

adj. not favorable; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews"

adj. "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"

adj. not conducive to good moral development; "the movie is unsuitable for children"

adj. able to intoxicate

adj. having alcohol added: "a cup of brandy-laced coffee"; "he drank too much of the spiked punch"

adj. containing or of the nature of alcohol; "spiritous beverages"; "spirituous liquors"

adj. changed into a solid mass

adj. congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling; "in Georgia they serve congealed salads"

adj. consisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devices

adj. characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids

adj. not moderated or controlled; "his untempered individualism"

adj. made greater or stronger; "beefed-up sales efforts"

adj. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

adj. having a thick short powerful neck

adj. resembling a bullock in strength and power; "thick bullocky shoulders"

adj. devoting full strength and concentrated attention to; "made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters"

adj. forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"

adj. marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers"

adj. exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron; "ironlike determination"; "ironlike nerves"; "ironlike discipline of the Marines"

adj. strong enough to knock down or overwhelm; "a knock-down blow"

adj. readily noticed; "a noticeable resemblance"

adj. having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

adj. given added strength or support; "reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting"

adj. strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity; "the experiment yielded robust results"; "a robust faith"

adj. of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"

adj. strongly and firmly constructed; "a well-knit argument"; "a well-knit theatrical production"; "well-knit athletes"; "a sailor short but well-set"- Alexander Hamilton

adj. requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"

adj. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"

adj. requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

adj. (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"

v. deprive of certain characteristics

v. do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

v. do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

v. turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

v. fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

v. pay out; "spend money"

v. interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks"

adj. yielding readily to pressure or weight

adj. like down or as soft as down

adj. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"

adj. compassionate and kind; conciliatory; "he was soft on his children"

adj. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')

adj. posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"

adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"

adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"

adj. requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

adj. performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"

adj. affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

adj. compassionate and kind; conciliatory; "he was soft on his children"

adj. requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"

adv. indulging with temperance; "we eat lightly in the morning"