make sth into sth
— phrasal verb with make uk/meɪk/us/meɪk/verb made, made
B2 to change something into something else:
They've made the spare room into an office.
More examples
- I made the leftover meat into a pie.
- I made the silk into a dress.
- The old buildings were made into classrooms.
- I'd like to make these pieces of wood into a sculpture.
- Shall we make this cloth into curtains?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- polymorphous
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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