make fast
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I pulled back, made fast again to the jetty, and then went to sleep at last."
- "It is a well-known fact that an immense proportion of boat accidents would never happen if people held the sheet in their hands instead of making it fast; and yet, unless it be some martinet of a professional mariner or some landsman with shattered nerves, every one of God's creatures makes it fast."
Inflected Forms
makes fast (present, singular)
making fast (participle, present)
made fast (participle, past)
made fast (past)