making 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

   Synonyms:

   address, beau, bedear, chase after, court, endear, make a move (on), pitch woo, put the moves on, romance