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makes garden

makes garden is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make garden.

Meaning of make garden

Verb

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

  1. (Canada, US, dated, idiomatic) To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.
    • As the spring advanced, and after Jacob left us, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the house doing nothing, and therefore undertook to make us a garden, or “to make garden” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.1852, Susanna Moodie, chapter 8, in Roughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 142
    Synonyms:
    garden

Questions about makes garden

What is makes garden the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Makes garden is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make garden.

Words near makes garden in the dictionary

  1. makes free with
  2. makes friendly
  3. makes friends
  4. makes fun of
  5. makes game of
  6. makes garden
  7. makes good
  8. makes good on
  9. makes good one's running
  10. makes good time
  11. makes ground

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