1. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill
2. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
3. To gain; to obtain.
1. To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue.
2. To manage, conduct, or prosecute.
3. To behave in a wild, rude, or inappropriate manner.
4. When you carry on, you continue as before, despite a difficult experience in your life.
1. To bear from within.
2. To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue.
3. To sustain to the end; to continue to the end.
1. To direct the course of; manage or control; SYN. carry out, carry on, deal.
2. To lead; SYN. lead, direct.
3. To transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of sounds or images; SYN. transmit, convey, carry, channel.
To enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; SYN. enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose.
To bind with something round or circular; SYN. encircle.
1. To contain as a part
2. To engage as a participant
3. To make complex or intricate or complicated
4. To connect closely and often incriminatingly; SYN. affect, regard.
5. To occupy or engage the interest of
6. To wrap
(Irregular preterit, past participle: made).
1. To produce or cause to be or to become; SYN. create.
2. To produce by shaping or bringing together constituents.
3. To give certain properties to something; SYN. get, produce, turn into, transform, convert.
4. To perform or carry out.
5. To undergo fabrication or creation.
6. To change from one form into another.
7. To develop into.
8. To engage in; SYN. do.
9. To be suitable for.
10. To behave in a certain way.
11. To put in order or neaten; SYN. make up.
12. To form by assembling individuals or constituents.
13. To favor the development of.
14. To consider as being.
15. To constitute the essence of.
16. To compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way.
17. To carry out or commit; SYN. commit, accomplish.
18. To cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable.
19. To act in a certain way so as to acquire.
20. To add up to.
21. To pretend to be; imitate.
22. To reach in time.
23. To appear to begin an activity.
24. To assure the success of.
25. To calculate as being.
ETYM Cf. French maffle, mumble, Dutch moffelen.
To deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping; SYN. mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down.
1. To give a performance
2. To perform a function
3. To act or perform an action; SYN. execute, do.
ETYM Prov. Eng.
1. To cover as if with a shroud; SYN. enshroud, hide, cover.
2. To form a cover like a shroud.
3. To wrap in a shroud; of corpses.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: wound)
1. To extend in curves and turns; SYN. curve.
2. To wrap around, move around; SYN. wrap, roll.
3. Said of springs: to wind up.
4. To tighten the spring of (a mechanism); SYN. wind up.