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make way

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. make wayverb

    get out of the way

    "make way for the President's motorcade"

Wiktionary

  1. make wayverb

    To make progress.

  2. make wayverb

    To progress through the water .

  3. make wayverb

    To give place or step aside.

  4. make wayinterjection

    an instruction to get out of the way of someone else, usually because they are carrying something and need a clear pathway. Compare with gangway.

  5. Etymology: Originally nautical

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  1. make way

    "Make way" generally means to move aside or clear a path for someone or something to pass through. It can also mean to leave or abandon a place or position to allow someone else to occupy it. It is often used to indicate that progress or advancement should be allowed.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of make way in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of make way in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of make way in a Sentence

  1. Naomi Kahn:

    The Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority supporters have proven willing, even eager, to destroy the physical remains of thousands of years of Judeo-Christian culture in an attempt to make way for a fictitious quasi-historical narrative that supports their political agenda.

  2. Priests Revealed in Tudor Mansion:

    We are focusing attention on a series of stone structures that underlie the standing brick buildings, we will be trying to date their construction and when they were demolished to make way for the current structures.

  3. Martina Leinz:

    Virtually every constituency in this country wants this, there's only one that doesn't -- and that's the gun industry because they make way too much money on people who shouldn't have guns.

  4. Carleton Bowekaty:

    Today, instead of being removed from a landscape to make way for a public park, we are being invited back to our ancestral homelands to help repair them and plan for a resilient future.

  5. Prime Minister Modi:

    We must together invoke the spirit of Bharat Mata( Mother India) and ensure that the dark clouds of the virus make way for the light hope.


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