make way

Speech parts

1. make way - Verb

2. make way - Interjection

Meaning

get out of the way

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

advance progress shift facilitate infiltrate get in get through pass through come in go in come forward move over get ahead open the door change position

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Antonyms

cripple block bar delay barrier brake

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Hypernyms

move

Examples

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man. Reginald Maudling

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. Antonin Artaud

I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods. Flora Thompson

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. Christian Nestell Bovee

Make way for a madman and a bull. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

make water make watertight make waves make way for make weak make weaker