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make do > verb, social
Meaning	Come to terms or deal successfully with.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Synonyms	cope, get by, make out, contend, grapple, deal, manage
Broader	act, move
Narrower	improvise, extemporize; fend; hack, cut; scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along; meet, match, cope with