make much
English
Verb
- (usually with "of") To emphasize, put much value on.
- 2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility (page 74)
- Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.
- 2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility (page 74)
- (usually with "of") To give fond attention to; to cosset.
- 2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce (page 119)
- Usually, on such visits, the colonel made much of the dog. Today he merely glanced up abstractedly from his writing, at sight of Bruce's silken head at his side.
- 2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce (page 119)
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