💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Make shift"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| shiftnoun | A movement to do something, a beginning. |
| shufflenoun | The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them. |
| make doverb | (intransitive, idiomatic, informal) To survive, get by (with), or use whatever is available (due to lack of resources). |
| scrattlenoun | To scratch. |
| extemporiseverb | (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise. |
| hack itverb | (idiomatic) To cope; to be successful in something despite adversity. |
| muddle throughverb | (ambitransitive) To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained. |
| improviseverb | To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan. |
| improvizeverb | (rare, proscribed) Alternative spelling of improvise. [To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.] |
| work aroundverb | To bypass or circumvent (a problem or obstacle). |
| hacknoun | A tool for chopping. |
| lash upverb | (transitive, informal) To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner. |
| patch upverb | (idiomatic, figuratively) To repair relations; to improve relations. |
| frignoun | An act of frigging. |
| vampnoun | A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale. |
| scratch byverb | (idiomatic) To get by; to make ends meet. |
| make it up as one goes alongverb | (idiomatic) To improvise continuously. |
| put a shift inverb | (idiomatic) To work hard; to make an effort |
| improvisateverb | (archaic or nonstandard) To improvise |
| extemporizeverb | (intransitive) To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise. |
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