List of synonyms from "make a stab at" to synonyms from "make allowance"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms make acute, make a todo, make a stand, make a to-do over and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Make a stab at
- Make a stand
- Make a stand against
- Make a start
- Make a stink
- Make a tape
- Make a to-do
- Make a to-do over
- Make a todo
- Make a trial run
- Make a U-turn
- Make a uturn
- Make a wad
- Make a wry face
- Make absurd
- Make acquaintance
- Make active
- Make acute
- Make advance
- Make advances
- Make advances to
- Make agree
- Make alive
- Make allowance
Definition of the day : « make advances »
- As in socialize : verb be friendly at gatherings
- As in woo : verb seek as romantic partner
- As in nationalize : verb socialize
- He was not just then in a mood either to make advances or to receive them.
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- The family of the young man should be the first to make advances.
- Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway
- It was not her place to make advances, all too likely to be rebuffed.
- Extract from : « Marjorie Dean » by Pauline Lester
- For there are few men in the world who make advances where there is no encouragement.
- Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Then the Duke of Shrewsbury said he thought that Duke was not used to make advances.
- Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift
- In order to make advances the most diverse methods were used, as was said before.
- Extract from : « A German deserter's war experience » by Anonymous
- For a moment he was afraid that she was going to make advances, but she passed on.
- Extract from : « A Virgin Heart » by Remy de Gourmont
- They have not been willing to make advances on farms that cannot be made to pay.
- Extract from : « One Irish Summer » by William Eleroy Curtis
- It was so difficult for her to make advances, so fatally easy for him to rebuff them.
- Extract from : « The Nest Builder » by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
- They will pay all bank-notes in full, and will make advances not exceeding 15s.
- Extract from : « Christopher Crayon's Recollections » by J. Ewing Ritchie