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make room

make room verb: to rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.
    • I moved the books off my desk to make room for my labtop.
    • This tunnel was 326 yd. long, and the portals were designed by Brunel to represent Norman archways. It was converted into an open cutting, between 1887 and 1889, to make room for the shunting necks of the sidings at Bristol East Depot.1949 May and June, “A Middlesex Inn Sign”, in Railway Magazine, page 142

make room meaning in Tamil

make room in Tamil

to make room, get out of the way
இடை iṭai

Forms of make room

third-person singular presentmakes room
present participlemaking room
past participlemade room
pastmade room

Questions about make room

What does make room mean?
Make room means to rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.
What is make room in Tamil?
Make room in Tamil is இடை (iṭai). See Make room meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is make room?
Make room is a verb.
What is the past tense of make room?
The past tense of make room is made room.

Words near make room in the dictionary

  1. make pigs and whistles of
  2. make position
  3. make pretend
  4. make quick work of
  5. make right
  6. make room
  7. make sail
  8. make semblant
  9. make sense
  10. make shift
  11. make shifts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make room (page history and authors); இடை (Tamil) (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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