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MAKE BOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does make bold mean?
• MAKE BOLD (verb)
The verb MAKE BOLD has 1 sense:
1. take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
Familiarity information: MAKE BOLD used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
Context example:
How dare you call my lawyer?
Hypernyms (to "make bold" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s INFINITIVE
Context examples
“Bill,” said the stranger in a voice that I thought he had tried to make bold and big.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I make bold to say that the man who can carry these objects out with success has deserved better of the country than the officer of a battleship, tacking from Ushant to the Black Rocks and back again until she builds up a reef with her beef-bones.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Upon the strength of this reasoning, I ventured to address them in the following manner: Gentlemen, if you be conjurers, as I have good cause to believe, you can understand my language; therefore I make bold to let your worships know that I am a poor distressed Englishman, driven by his misfortunes upon your coast; and I entreat one of you to let me ride upon his back, as if he were a real horse, to some house or village where I can be relieved.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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