Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Make do with and allow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Make do with" instead a verb "Allow".
Make do with
Allow and make do with are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Allow" instead a verb "Make do with".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- approve and allow
- approve and make do with
- take and allow
- take and make do with
- acknowledge and allow
- acknowledge and make do with
- support and allow
- support and make do with
- confirm and allow
- confirm and make do with
- accept and allow
- accept and make do with
- agree to and allow
- agree to and make do with
Both terms in one sentence
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A similar joke goes: a tired traveler is crossing a vast desert on his camel, and thinks to himself, "I haven't had sex for days... I'll make do with this camel." However, the camel won't stay still to allow him to have sex with it.
Source: Bestiality Is Depraved - As the production was still making money at the time the film was set to be produced, the stage producers wouldn't allow Karloff out of his contract long enough to appear in the film version, and so the film producers had to make do with a heavily-made-up Raymond Massey.
Source: Casting Gag
Cite this Source
Make do with and Allow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/make_do_with
Allow & Make do with. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/make_do_with>.
Make do with or Allow. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/make_do_with.
