make free with
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.48 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)
verb
To take (something) freely, help oneself to
Example Sentences
- "1817, The Trial Between Mark Browne, Esq. and Martin Jos. Blake, Esq. for Adultery, London: John Fairburn, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kC1DAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Mr. Browne […] protested he had never made free with any woman but his wife, since his marriage."
- "Thin the masther called out Dinny Moran, an' dhragged him up to one o' the Dublin young ladies, an' bid Dinny be stout an' ax her out to dance wid him. So Dinny, you see, though he was ashamed to make so free wid the lady, still he was afeard not to do as the masther bid him; so, by my conscience, he bowled up to her manfully, an' hild out the fist an' axed her out to dance wid him[.]""
- "Although the theoretical strictures of Neoclassicism in Europe during the later seventeenth century and the eighteenth century banned generic mixtures, they were not too faithfully adhered to. There was always a folk theater that made free with the rules […]"
- "She was seated, as she observed, on her own brother's hearth, and had been Jane Featherstone five-and-twenty years before she had been Jane Waule, which entitled her to speak when her own brother's name had been made free with by those who had no right to it."
- "Oscar was […] reluctant to let a Poundamore make free with a Shillingsworth disgrace."
- "1767, Isaac Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, Act I, Scene II, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZdZZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] I left my father's house unknown to any one, having made free with a coat and jacket of our gardener's which fitted me, by way of disguise: […]"