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If you make someone something, you appoint them to a particular job, role, or position. Mr Blair made him transport minister

If you make something into something else, you change it in some way so that it becomes that other thing. We made it into a beautiful home

To make a total or score a particular amount means to increase it to that amount. This makes the total cost of the bulb and energy £27

to make friends: see friend

You use make to talk about causing someone or something to be a particular thing or to have a particular quality. For example, to make someone a star means to cause them to become a star, and to make someone angry means to cause them to become angry. James Bond, the role that made him a star She made life very difficult for me She's made it obvious that she's appalled by me Rationing has made it easier to find some products like eggs, butter and meat Does your film make a hero of Jim Garrison?

If you make someone do something, you force them to do it. You can't make me do anything They were made to pay $8.8 million in taxes

When someone makes a friend or an enemy, someone becomes their friend or their enemy, often because of a particular thing they have done. Lorenzo was a natural leader who made friends easily He was unruly in class and made an enemy of most of his teachers

If someone makes something of themselves or makes something of their life, they become successful. My father lived long enough to see that I'd made something of myself The nuns who taught him urged him to make something of his life and he did

If you say that one thing or person makes another seem, for example, small, stupid, or good, you mean that they cause them to seem small, stupid, or good in comparison, even though they are not. They live in fantasy worlds which make Euro Disney seem uninventive

If something makes you do something, it causes you to do it. Grit from the highway made him cough I was made to feel guilty and irresponsible

If you make yourself understood, heard, or known, you succeed in getting people to understand you, hear you, or know that you are there. Aron couldn't speak Polish. I made myself understood with difficulty

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