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make it one's life

make it one's life verb: to dedicate effort to a task, often at great cost.

Verb

make it one's life (third-person singular simple present makes it one's life, present participle making it one's life, simple past and past participle made it one's life)

  1. To dedicate effort to a task, often at great cost.
    • If I catch you smoking on the job again, I will make it my life to get you fired.

Forms of make it one's life

third-person singular presentmakes it one's life
present participlemaking it one's life
past participlemade it one's life
pastmade it one's life

Questions about make it one's life

What does make it one's life mean?
Make it one's life means to dedicate effort to a task, often at great cost.
What part of speech is make it one's life?
Make it one's life is a verb.
What is the past tense of make it one's life?
The past tense of make it one's life is made it one's life.

Words near make it one's life in the dictionary

  1. make it count
  2. make it do or do without
  3. make it interesting
  4. make it make sense
  5. make it one's business
  6. make it one's life
  7. make it rain
  8. make it snappy
  9. make it so
  10. make it so that
  11. make it up as one goes along

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