MAKE IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make it mean? 

• MAKE IT (verb)
  The verb MAKE IT has 3 senses:

1. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

2. succeed in a big way; get to the top

3. go successfully through a test or a selection process

  Familiarity information: MAKE IT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE IT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

come through; make it; pull round; pull through; survive

Context example:

He survived the cancer against all odds

Hypernyms (to "make it" is one way to...):

defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)

"Make it" entails doing...:

convalesce; recover; recuperate (get over an illness or shock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

The business is going to make it

Sense 2

Meaning:

Succeed in a big way; get to the top

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

arrive; get in; go far; make it

Context example:

You will go far, my boy!

Hypernyms (to "make it" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Go successfully through a test or a selection process

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

make it; pass

Context example:

She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now

Hypernyms (to "make it" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make it"):

ace; breeze through; nail; pass with flying colors; sail through; sweep through (succeed at easily)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Feeling sure that it was necessary for papa's peace that the sacrifice should be made, I entreated him to make it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

High amounts of androstanolone may increase the growth of prostate cancer and make it harder to treat.

(Androstanolone, NCI Dictionary)

Anti-TGF-beta monoclonal antibody GC1008 binds to the protein transforming growth factor-beta (TGFß) and may block the growth of cancer cells that make it.

(anti-TGF-beta monoclonal antibody GC1008, NCI Dictionary)

Others make it easier for white blood cells to destroy the antigen.

(Antibody, NCI Dictionary)

Something was wrong inside, but they could locate no broken bones, could not make it out.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The platelets retain the fibrin in tiny, tightly wound bundles, therefore remodeling the fibrin mesh to make it more dense and stiff.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Stress doesn't cause acne, but stress can make it worse.

(Acne, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

It can make it hard for you to read, write, and say what you mean to say.

(Aphasia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

White Fang knew how to make it and when to make it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Talking won't make it any better," said I. "Come on."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)