Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make free of

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.49 in modern English

Syllables: make free of
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To use something that belongs to another person (often with permission)

Example Sentences

"The chickens and dogs were making free of the galleries, and the hogs wallowed in peaceful immunity underneath."
"1967, Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Fables of a Jewish Aesop, translated by Moses Hadas, Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2001, p. 110 https://books.google.ca/books?id=s6EjsopJmp4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There she saw many mice making free of wheat and barley; six measures of barley they meted out to themselves to bring to their holes, until they had enough and to spare."
"[…] a young woman curtsied to him. "Please make free of my home," said she."
"He did not know everyone knew he had a gun; that the children who made free of every hut as the cockroaches knew everything and chattered all."

Inflected Forms

makes free of (present, singular) making free of (participle, present) made free of (participle, past) made free of (past)

Phrases

make free with

Frequently Paired Words

make free with

Questions

What does make free of mean?: To use something that belongs to another person (often with permission)

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