MAGIC
M
MAGIC
magicked, magicked, magicking
magic away
~Iawayl Imagicawayl~
BrE
to make something disappear quickly and
without any effort: The new government was
facing a serious political problem which
couldn't be magicked away.
magic up
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magic
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sth
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up
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magic up ~
to make something appear quickly and with-
out any effort: The program can magic upfacts
on any subject within a couple of minutes.
MAJOR
majored, majored, majoring
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major in
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sth
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AmE

NOT PASSIVE
BrE informal
to steal something and escape
with it: Thieves made away with thousands of
dollars worth ofjewellery.
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make off with
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make away with
l~
BrE old-fashioned
to kill someone, especially
after deciding to do it and planning it
secretly: Mrs Jonathan now realized that she
would never get a divorce. So she decided to
make away with him instead.
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SIMILAR TO:
kill, do away with
informal
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make for ~
NOT PASSIVE
to move towards something: At last the film
finished and we got up and made far the exit.
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The two pilots made far Barber

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make ~ into ~
to change something in order to use it in a
different way or for a different purpose:
Sagan
s
best-selling book is being made into a
movie by director Robert Zemeckis.
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The
assistant showed us how an ordinary-looking
sofa could be made into two beds .
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SIMILAR TO:
turn into
~T
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make
Isb
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into
Isth I
to change someone so that they become a
different sort of person or have a different
position in society: The film made her into a
star overnight.
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Russell had spent a year in
prison before he was found not guilty. It had
made him into a bitter man.

make off
I
X
to leave quickly, especially in order to escape:
Detectives believe that the gunmen made off in
the direction of Barnwell Park.
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SIMILAR TO:
take off
make off with"
X"
s
I
make off with
I~
NOT PASSIVE
to steal something and escape with it: Biggs
and sixteen others made offwith £2.5 million
in the Great Train Robbery of 1965.
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SIMILAR TO:
make away with
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make out
@El I
make
@El
out
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NOT PASSIVE

to what someone understands about a
situation, although it may not be correct)
From what I can make out, the girl ran
straight into the road, without stopping to
look.
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SIMILAR TO:
work out
especially
SrE,
figure out
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make
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sth/sb
lout to be
I~
to describe something or someone, usually
wrongly, as a particular type of thing or per-
son, because you want people to believe that
it is true: He was a good man, but the press
made him out to be weak and unimportant.
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So what about fox-hunting? Is it really the
bloody sport that its made out to be?
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make out (that>]
especially BrE

SIMILAR TO;
write out
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can't make
I~
if you can't make someone out, you cannot
understand what kind of person they are, or
why they behave as they do: Dorothy s such
a quiet reserved person. I've never been able
to make her out at all.
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SIMILAR TO:
can't figure sb out, can't work
sb out
SrE
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make outl
AmE informal
to kiss and touch someone in a
sexual way: A couple of teenagers were
making out in the back of the movie theater.
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SIMILAR TO;
snog
SrE
informal
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make up
I~
USUALLY PASSNE
if a number of parts or members make up
something, they combine together to form it:
Women made up over 40% of the workforce.
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the countries that make up the United Nations
be made up of Indonesia is made up of over
13,000 islands.
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The group was made up of
a psychologist, a social worker, and myself
make-up N
[uj
the things or people that something con-
sists of: There have been a lot of changes to
the make-up of the team.
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make up your mind/make your mind up
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to make a definite decision or choice, after
thinking about it for a long time: I wish he'd
hurry up and make up his mind.
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In the fall of
1945 he made up his mind to quit school.
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MAKE
+ what/whichlwhether etc The doctors

to think of something new using your imag-
ination, for example the words for a new
song, story ete: The soldiers used to make up
rude songs about him.
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He couldn't remember
any fairy stories, so he made one up about a
magic carpet - the children loved it.
make it up as you go along (=decide how
to do something while you are doing it
instead of planning it before) We didn't
have any experience when we started the
company, so we just made it up as we went
along.
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SIMILAR TO:
invent
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Imakeup~ Imade~
to prepare or arrange something so that it is
ready to be used - use this about lists, beds,
sandwiches, or medicines: My wife's made up
a bed for you in the spare room.
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Shall I make
up some sandwiches?
*
SIMILAR TO:
prepare, get ready
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make-up test
N
[cl
AmE
a test in school or college that you do
later than other people in the class,
because you were not there to do it at the
same time
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Imakeupl~
to add to an amount or number, so that you
have the amount or number that you need in
order to do something: I'm paying £800
towards the car, and my parents say they'll
make up the rest of the money.
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We need two
more players to make up the team.
make up the difference (=pay the remaining
money that is needed) 70% of the theatre's
costs are covered by ticket sales, with a
government grant making up the difference.
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make up
[ill [
make ~
to put coloured creams, powders etc onto
someone's face to change the way they look:
She had been made up to look like an old

more than make up for sth (=be so good
that it makes the bad situation seem
unimportant) She felt exhausted, but the
sheer pleasure of having reached the
summit more than made up for it.
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SIMILAR TO:
compensate for
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make up for ~
NOT PASSIVE
to do something good for someone after
doing something bad to them, so that they
forgive you: Can I buy you lunch to make up
for being late?
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Mike forgot his wife's birth-
day - so he took her to Paris to make up for it.
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make up for
I~
to have so much of a good quality that it is not
important that you do not have enough of
another quality: Perhaps Sue lacked natural
skill, but she certainly made upfor that with her
enthusiasm.
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NOT PASSNE
to talk to someone in a very friendly way
because you want to have sex with them:
Paul came to the party uninvited, and then
started making up to all the women.
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SIMILAR TO:
chat up
BrE informal
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make up to ~
NOTPASSNE
BrE old-fashioned
to be
very
friendly to some-
one in authority because you want them to
do something for you: students who start
making up to the teacher just before the exams
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SIMILAR TO:
suck up to
Informal
MAP
mapped, mapped, mapping
map out
Imapout~ Imaplsth~
to plan something carefully' or to explain
carefully what your plans are: Felicity

sb/sth ~
to show or consider that someone or some-
thing is a particular type of person or thing:
Townsend's skill and speed mark him as a
player of potential.
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When she first saw
Patrick she had marked him as a bully.
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mark down
as
BrE,
label
mark down
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mark
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sth ~
I
mark down ~
to reduce the price of something: Pentos
shares were marked down by 14p to 56p.
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The
store was having its final sale on Friday, with
everything marked down by 20%.
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SIMILAR TO:

~downasl~
BrE
to consider someone or something to be
a particular type of person or thing: From the
start of his rugby career, Andrew has been
marked down as a very exciting player.
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The
Netherlands was marked down as a particu-
larly attractive area for economic expansion.
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SIMILAR TO:
mark as
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mark off
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mark
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sth
I~
to separate an area of ground or show where
its border is: Within the garden, hedges are
valuable for marking off special areas and'M
providing shelter.
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The Voskresenye Gates
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mark off the north side of Red Square.
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cross off, tick off
BrE,
check off
mark out
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mark
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sb/sth ~
I
mark out ~
BrE
to make someone or something seem dif-
ferent from or better than other people or
things, especially in a very noticeable way:
Felipe was broad-shouldered and slim. He
still had that athletic look that had marked
him out so long ago.
+ as Her considerable experience of inter-
national law marked her out as exceptional.
+ from It's the way real ale
is
produced that
marks it out from other beers.
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SIMILARTO:
distinguish
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mark out

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The market was relieved
that the figures were not worse, and marked
the shares up 7p.
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SIMILARTO:
put up, hike up
• OPPOSITE: mark down
mark-up
N
[cl
an increase in the price of something,
especially the difference between the
amount a store pays for something and
the amount it sells it for: The mark-up on
eggs between producer and supermarket is
between 160% and 170%.
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mark §I up] Imark up
1
5th
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BrE
to put a mark beside something that is
written on a list, to show that you have dealt
with it or chosen it: It was Lawrie 'sjob to col-
lect the rents and mark them up in a book.
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The vehicles are all tested first and their parts

marry into
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marry into
@El
to marry someone from a particular family or
social group, especially a rich or important
one, and so become part of it: Douglas
Robinson married into the Roosevelt family of
Oyster Bay.
marry off
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marry off
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sb \ [
marry
I
sb
I
off
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old-fashioned
to arrange for someone, espe-
cially a female member of your family, to get
married or to marry someone you have
chosen: In country areas it was common for
fathers to marry off their daughters when they
reached twelve or thirteen.
+
to
The Duke's daughter, Anne, was seized

with The two halves can then be trimmed
and married up.
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The new parts should
marry up with the old system.
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SIMILAR TO:
connect
MARVEL
marvelled,marvelled,marvellingerE
marveled,marve/ed,marvelingAmE
marvel at
Imarvelat~
to be very surprised by something, especially
a quality that you admire about something or
someone: Those who watch the programme
marvel at the speed of Carole
s
brain.
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Visitors never cease to marvel at the beauty of
the Taj Mahal. lOne can only marvel at the
wisdom of the writers of the US constitution.
MASH
mashed, mashed, mashing
mash up
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mash
I
st~

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We had a cup of hot
brown stuff which masqueraded as tea.
MATCH
matched, matched, matching
match against
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match
I
sb/sth
I
against ~
USUALLY PASSNE
to make two people, teams etc compete
against each other to see which one is best:
The two men were matched against each other
in Game
3
of the American League Champion-
ship series.
2
~~s-th-I-a-g-ai-n-st~~
USUALLY PASSIVE
to compare one thing with another in order
to see whether they are the same: The cor-
rect answers can be matched very quickly
against each candidate
s
test.

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to bring together two people or things that
seem to be suitable for each other
+ with She only invited me to dinner to try
and match me up with her brother.
I
When
choosing a
furnishing
fabric, remember to
match it up with the other colours in the
room.
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match
upl
especiallyerE to be of a good enough standard:
If they want to be players on the international
scene, their standards will have to match up.
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It was fashionable to be incredibly thin and my
figure just didn't match up.
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SIMILAR TO:
measure up
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MATCH 328
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match

complaining that Rome did not match up to
London!
match up to your expectations/hopes/
ideals etc (=be as good as you expected,
hoped etc) I was really disappointed by
Hollywood. It didn't match up to my expec-
tations at all.
*
SIMILAR TO:
measure up. live up to
MAUL
mauled, mauled, mauling
maul around/about
~ around/about
I
BrE informal
to pull something or someone
from one position to another in a rough or
violent way: Some of the women complained
about the medical examination, saying that
they had been mauled about and treated like
pieces of meat.
MAX
maxed, maxed, maxing
-
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Imax outl
AmE informal if you max out on something,
you have too much of it and do not want any
more

spend years repaying the debt.
MEASURE
measured, measured, measuring
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measure
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sb/sth
I
against
I
sb/sth
I
to judge how good or bad someone or some-
thing is, by comparing them with someone
or something else: With the government's
national tests, it is now possible to measure
each child against fixed standards.
I
The
administration's achievements are less
impressive if we measure them against their
intentions.
measure yourself against sb/sth If all musi-
cians measured themselves against Mozart,
they would get very depressed.
measure off
I
measure ~
I
measure off

X
to be of a good enough standard
how does sblsth measure up (=used when
asking what someone or something is like
and whether they are good enough) What
happens to teachers who don't measure
up?
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How does your new house measure
up?
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to
I wondered how he would measure up
to being chairman.
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Some of the college
50
courses do not measure up to the required
standard.
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measure up
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measure ~
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measure up
§]
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to measure the exact size of something, for

another person or thing, in order to find
which is better, bigger ete: How does the com-
pany
50
performance
measure up against the
best in the world?
measure up to
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measure up to ~
to be as good as someone or something else,
when you compare them: According to our
research, girls still do not measure up to boys
in science subjects.
MEET
mer, met,
meeting
-
I
meet upj
to meet someone, either because you have
arranged to, or by chance: If you'd like to meet
up for a drink sometime, give me a call.
I
The
members of the band had all had various
music jobs before they met up a year ago.
+ with We met up with the rest of the group
in Frankfurt.
*

met with I§]
if something meets with or is met with a par-
ticular reaction, that is the way people react
to it: The architects design did not meet with
their approval.
I
A decision to hold the confer-
ence in Berlin met with resistance from our
colleagues.
I
The governments proposals were
met with opposition by all the parties con-
cerned.
I
News of the merger has been met
with great excitement in the city.
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meet with
§]
NOT
PASSNE
if someone or something meets with success,
failure, problems etc, they experience suc-
cess, failure, problems ete: The company
s
efforts to expand met with some success.
meet with an accident (=have an accident)
Bill looked serious. "One of our workers
has met with an accident," he said.

»:
to gradually disappear: Harman saw her
hopes of promotion slowly melt away.
I
He
laughed suddenly, and all the irritation in his
face melted away.
+ into The high rocky cliff. melted away
into long stretches of silvery beach.
I
Olivia
saw his hard look melt away into tender-
ness.
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SIMILAR TO:
fade away
2
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melt away
I
if people melt away, they gradually move
away from someone or somewhere, often
until they have completely disappeared: By
the time the police appeared, most of the
crowd had melted away.
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