{"id":73224,"date":"2020-03-22T05:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73224"},"modified":"2020-03-22T05:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T05:47:37","slug":"phrasal-verbs-letter-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-letter-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs | Letter M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs beginning with M. Each phrasal verb is followed by its meaning \/ definition and example sentences.<\/p>\n<h3>Make out = understand, decipher, figure out, see or hear something clearly<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I can\u2019t make out what this book is about. (= I can\u2019t understand what this book is about.)<\/li>\n<li>Few people have managed to make out Einstein\u2019s Theory of Relativity.<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t make out what object it is. (= I can\u2019t clearly see what object it is.)<\/li>\n<li>These days just about everybody wants to make out in the show business. (= Just about everybody wants to succeed in the show business.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make out can also mean pretend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He made out that he was ill. (= He pretended that he was ill.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Make for<\/h3>\n<p>To make for is to go towards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He made for the door. (= He went towards the door.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Make up<\/h3>\n<p>To make something up is to invent it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has made up a clever device to reduce fuel consumption.<\/li>\n<li>When asked why she was late, she made up a story that she had met with a minor accident.<\/li>\n<li>Vikram is very imaginative. He always makes things up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To make up a fire<\/b>\u00a0is to put fuel on it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was unbearably cold so we decided to make up a fire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To make a face up<\/b>\u00a0is to put cosmetics on it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The beautician took hours to make her face up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To make up for\u00a0<\/b>something is to compensate for it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amar made up for being late by buying me drinks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To make up one\u2019s mind<\/b>\u00a0is to decide.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you like vanilla or strawberry? Well, I can\u2019t make up my mind. I think either will do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Make it up<\/h3>\n<p>To make it up with somebody is to end a quarrel.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why not make it up with the old man? (= Why not end your quarrel with the old man?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To make up to<\/b>\u00a0someone is to try to win his favour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vicky wants a promotion so he is always making up to his boss. (= He is always trying to win the favour of his boss.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Make over (separable)<\/h3>\n<p>To make something over is to do it again.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The professor made me do my project over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs beginning with M. Each phrasal verb is followed by its meaning \/ definition and example sentences. Make out = understand, decipher, figure out, see or hear something&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1059,1928,3],"class_list":["post-73224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-common-phrasal-verbs","tag-english-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verbs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73225,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224\/revisions\/73225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}