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made love

made love is the simple past and past participle of make love.

Meaning of make love

Verb

make love (third-person singular simple present makes love, present participle making love, simple past and past participle made love)

  1. (euphemistic) To engage in sexual intercourse.
    • I caught them making love on my couch.
    Synonyms:
    approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations
  2. (archaic) To make amorous approaches (to); to woo, romance, court.
    • So from thenceforth, when loue he to her made, / VVith better tearmes ſhe did him entertaine, / VVhich gaue him hope, and did him halfe perſvvade, / That he iunb time her ioyaunce ſhould obtaine.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 494

Questions about made love

What is made love the simple past and past participle of?
Made love is the simple past and past participle of make love.

Words near made love in the dictionary

  1. made like a banana and split
  2. made like a left
  3. made like a tree
  4. made like a tree and left
  5. made little of
  6. made love
  7. made love to the camera
  8. made man
  9. made matters worse
  10. made men
  11. made mention

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