What is another word for make do?
Synonyms for make do
make do
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word make do.
Princeton's WordNet
makeshift, stopgap, make-doverb
something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manageverb
come to terms with
"We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
Synonyms:
wield, take, finagle, discern, bang, screw, vie, handle, recognise, deal, grapple, distinguish, debate, repugn, make love, divvy up, do, jazz, spot, roll in the hay, cut, escape, be intimate, get along, address, fight, lot, pick out, get out, portion out, eff, dole out, compete, plow, bed, do it, consider, superintend, have intercourse, make out, share, manage, struggle, tell apart, supervise, neck, apportion, contest, fill in, administer, treat, parcel out, sell, have it away, sleep with, bring off, dispense, get off, dish out, contend, come, issue, love, argue, hump, get laid, fence, negociate, get away, pull off, allot, have it off, get it on, oversee, sleep together, cover, get by, distribute, write out, carry on, carry off, cope, recognize, bonk, know, wangle, mete out, look at, postulate, have sex, complete, grip, care, fare, lie with, deal out, trade, shell out, have a go at it, conduct, fill out
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#47 | do | |
#201 | know | |
#246 | take | |
#249 | address | |
#309 | care | |
#370 | love | |
#504 | come | |
#522 | complete | |
#564 | sell | |
#604 | issue | |
#660 | share | |
#718 | trade | |
#748 | lot | |
#846 | cover | |
#1260 | bed | |
#1274 | deal | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1528 | consider | |
#2217 | manage | |
#2465 | handle | |
#2575 | fight | |
#2645 | conduct | |
#2652 | jazz | |
#2915 | spot | |
#3284 | debate | |
#3575 | contest | |
#3758 | treat | |
#4051 | bang | |
#4094 | neck | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4730 | recognize | |
#5905 | struggle | |
#6554 | compete | |
#6874 | distribute | |
#7080 | argue | |
#7195 | screw | |
#7245 | grip | |
#8175 | fence | |
#8972 | fare | |
#9848 | cope | |
#10269 | distinguish | |
#12036 | administer | |
#12168 | recognise | |
#13033 | eff | |
#15477 | vie | |
#17935 | oversee | |
#18697 | supervise | |
#20325 | contend | |
#24516 | plow | |
#26968 | discern | |
#28429 | dispense | |
#29554 | hump | |
#38502 | grapple | |
#43512 | makeshift | |
#43679 | wield | |
#45153 | allot | |
#48394 | postulate | |
#66222 | bonk | |
#79102 | apportion | |
#115068 | stopgap | |
#166309 | superintend | |
#201767 | finagle | |
#308012 | wangle |
How to use make do in a sentence?
You can make do without a wallet but can't [live] without your smartphone when you go out these days.
Helping the person to reduce exercise frequency and intensity is essential, addicts will resist that but must learn how to make do with less exercise and discover they can be happy anyway.
Because of the fire activity around the entire region, our resources are stretched very, very thin, each incident is having to make do with what is available, not what's needed.
Demographics drive demand, older people have less need for houses, cars and consumer goods and have to make do on lower incomes as they move on to pension age, slowing the wheels of the economy.
Even though I had a shower in Canada, I hadn’t had running water for 340 days, we make do with not having a shower on board [the space station] – I definitely feel like I would like jump in a pool.
Translations for make do
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- vystačitCzech
- begnügen, auskommen, behelfenGerman
- αγγαρεύωGreek
- conformarseSpanish
- pärjätä, kelvataFinnish
- se débrouillerFrench
- arrangiarsi, farcela, far funzionareItalian
- 間に合わせる, やりくりJapanese
- genoegen nemenDutch
- zadowolić się, radzić, zadowalać sięPolish
- quebrar o galhoPortuguese
- справиться, справляться, обойтись, обходитьсяRussian
- klaraSwedish
- yetinmek, idare etmekTurkish
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