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make a scene

make a scene verb: to bring unnecessary attention to oneself, especially through a public expression of tumultuous emotion.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To bring unnecessary attention to oneself, especially through a public expression of tumultuous emotion.
    • I saw, though he tried to conceal it, that he was very much hurt at your behaviour, and I was sure, by his looks, that he did not think my jealous apprehension groundless; however, he protested he did, and persuaded me not to make a scene by arriving her in the middle of the night […]1814, Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Fashion, volume 2, part 8, London: Henry Colburn, page 287
    • The next time I saw Miss Churm after this incident she surprised me greatly by making a scene about it—she accused me of having wished to humiliate her.1893, Henry James, “The Real Thing”, in The Real Thing and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, page 25

make a scene meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

make a scene in Tamil

bring unnecessary attention to oneself
சீன் போடு cīṉ pōṭu

make a scene in Kannada

ಗಲಾಟೆ ಎಬ್ಬಿಸು, ರಂಪ ಮಾಡು

make a scene in Indonesian

bring unnecessary attention to oneself
berbuat ulah

Forms of make a scene

third-person singular presentmakes a scene
present participlemaking a scene
past participlemade a scene
pastmade a scene

Questions about make a scene

What does make a scene mean?
Make a scene means to bring unnecessary attention to oneself, especially through a public expression of tumultuous emotion.
What is make a scene in Tamil?
Make a scene in Tamil is சீன் போடு (cīṉ pōṭu). See Make a scene meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is make a scene?
Make a scene is a verb.
What is the past tense of make a scene?
The past tense of make a scene is made a scene.

Words near make a scene in the dictionary

  1. make a poor fist of
  2. make a production out of
  3. make a public spectacle of oneself
  4. make a rabbit bite a bulldog
  5. make a run for it
  6. make a scene
  7. make a show of oneself
  8. make a silk purse of a sow's ear
  9. make a spectacle of oneself
  10. make a splash
  11. make a stand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make a scene (page history and authors); make a scene (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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