make love

verb

have sexual intercourse with (Freq. 1)

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This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm

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Adam knew Eve

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Were you ever intimate with this man?

• Syn:

↑sleep together, ↑roll in the hay, ↑love, ↑make out, ↑sleep with, ↑get laid, ↑have sex, ↑know, ↑do it, ↑be intimate, ↑have intercourse, ↑have it away, ↑have it off, ↑screw, ↑fuck, ↑jazz, ↑eff, ↑hump, ↑lie with, ↑bed, ↑have a go at it, ↑bang, ↑get it on, ↑bonk

• Derivationally related forms:

↑bed (for: ↑bed), ↑fucker (for: ↑fuck), ↑fucking (for: ↑fuck), ↑fuck (for: ↑fuck), ↑screw (for: ↑screw), ↑screwing (for: ↑screw), ↑love (for: ↑love), ↑lover (for: ↑love)

• Usage Domain: ↑archaism (for: ↑screw)

• Hypernyms: ↑copulate, ↑mate, ↑pair, ↑couple

• Hyponyms: ↑take, ↑have, ↑fornicate

• Verb Group: ↑neck, ↑make out

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑lie with)

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑hump)

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑fuck)

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑screw)

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phrasal

1. : woo, court

2.

a. : neck, pet

b. : to engage in sexual intercourse

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make love phrase

to have sex with someone

Thesaurus: to have sex_synonym sexual activity_hyponym

Main entry: love

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1) have sexual intercourse

2) make love to dated pay amorous attention to (someone)

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make love

: to have sex with someone

It was the first time they made love (to/with each other).

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Main Entry: ↑love

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make love — see ↑love, 1

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Main Entry: ↑make