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makes love

makes love is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 makes love

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

Words near makes love in the dictionary

  1. makes like a banana and splits
  2. makes like a tree
  3. makes like a tree and leaves
  4. makes like a trees
  5. makes little of
  6. makes love
  7. makes love to the camera
  8. makes matters worse
  9. makes mention
  10. makes mention of
  11. makes merry

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