Make and Translate

Make

Make verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over

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Translate and make are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Translate" instead a verb "Make".

Nearby Words: makeup, making, maker

Translate verb - To express something (as a text or statement) in different words.

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Make and translate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Make" instead a verb "Translate".

connection	make connection	translate connection
sound	make sound	translate sound
speech	make speech	translate speech
name	make name	translate name
Other words: way, game, story, version, jokes, references, games.

There is no Atlus Europe so any game they make or translate has a hard time coming there.

Source: No Export For You / Video Games
Invoked in The City & the City: Inspector Borlu has to mentally translate a phrase ("The public has a right to know") back into English before he can make sense of it because the Besz word for "right" is too polysemic for the naive translation to work.

Source: Blind Idiot Translation / Literature
Expospeak Gag: "Mission Statement" is a series of buzzwords and vaguely positive-sounding metaphors that all roughly translate to "we need to make more money".

Source: Music / "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Translate and Make. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/translate

Make & Translate. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/translate>.

Translate or Make. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/translate.

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