Daring
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adjective
- Fearless before danger intrepid
"Bold settlers on some foreign shore …"
- Showing or requiring a fearless daring spirit
"a bold plan"
- Impudent, presumptuous
"punishing a bold child for talking back"
- Assured, confident
- Sheer, steep
"bold cliffs"
- Adventurous, free
"a bold thinker"
- Standing out prominently
"bold headlines"
- Being or set in boldface
"bold lettering"
noun
- Boldface
"printed in bold"
adjective
- Bold in manner or conduct impudent
- Being or set in boldface
idiom
- Not afraid at all very confident or bold
"I was too nervous to do it, but my sister went right up to him (as) bold as brass and asked for his autograph."
idiom
- To act or speak in a daring and confident way
"He was/made so bold as to guarantee a victory."
verb
- To bring into being by forming, shaping, or altering material fashion
"make a dress"
- To lay out and construct
"make a road"
- Compose, write
"make verses"
- To put together from components constitute
"houses made of stone"
- To cause to happen to or be experienced by someone
"made trouble for us"
- To cause to exist, occur, or appear create
"make a disturbance"
- To favor the growth or occurrence of
"haste makes waste"
- To fit, intend, or destine by or as if by creating
"was made to be an actor"
- Enact, establish
"make laws"
- To execute see execute in an appropriate manner
"make a will"
- Set, name
"make a price"
- To cause to be or become
"made them happy"
- Appoint
"made him bishop"
- To cause to act in a certain way compel
"make her give it back"
- To carry out (an action indicated or implied by the object)
"make war"
- To perform with a bodily movement
"make a sweeping gesture"
- To frame or formulate in the mind
"make plans"
- To set in order
"make beds"
- Prepare, fix
"make dinner"
- To assemble and set alight the materials for (a fire)
- To shuffle (a deck of cards) in preparation for dealing
- To amount to in significance
"makes a great difference"
- To count as
"that makes the third time you've said it"
- To form the essential being of
"clothes make the man"
- To form by an assembling of individuals
"make a quorum"
- To be or be capable of being changed or fashioned into
"rags make the best paper"
- To develop into
"she will make a fine judge"
- Form
- Reach, attain
"made port before the storm"
- To gain a place on or in
"make the team"
- To gain the rank of
"make major"
- To succeed in providing or obtaining
"make bail"
- To gain (something, such as money) by working, trading, or dealing
"make a living"
- To act so as to earn or acquire
"makes friends easily"
- To score in a game or sport
"make a field goal"
- To convert (a split) into a spare in bowling
- To succeed in holing
"make a putt"
- To conclude as to the nature or meaning of something
"what do you make of this development?"
- To regard as being
"not the fool some make him"
- To produce as a result of action, effort, or behavior with respect to something
"make a mess of the job"
- To turn into another language by translation
- To include in a route or itinerary
"make New York on the return trip"
- Catch
"made the bus just in time"
- To cause or assure the success or prosperity of
"can either make you or break you"
- To provide the most enjoyable or satisfying experience of
"meeting the star of the show really made our day"
- To compute or estimate to be
"I make it 23 miles to the border from here."
- To form and hold in the mind
"make no doubt of it"
- To begin or seem to begin (an action)
"made to go"
- Behave, act
- To fulfill (a contract) in a card game
- To win a trick see trick with (a card)
- To prepare (hay) by cutting, drying, and storing
- To cause (an electric circuit) to be completed
- Shut
"the doors are made against you"
- To persuade to consent to sexual intercourse seduce
- To have considerable effect
"courtesy makes for safer driving"
- Set out, head
"made after the fox"
- To begin or seem to begin a certain action
"made as though to hand it to me"
- To act so as to be or to seem to be
"make merry"
- Behave, act
"Don't make as if you didn't hear me."
- To play a part
- To increase in height or size
"the tide is making now"
- To reach or extend in a certain direction
"The forest makes up nearly to the snow line."
- To undergo manufacture or processing
"the silk makes up beautifully"
- To compose poetry
This clue was used on March 24, 2025.
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