make sth (all) your own
Definition
› If you make a piece of music, etc. (all) your own, you make it famous by the way you perform it.Having and owning - general words
(Definition of make sth (all) your own from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Belongings and possessions
- Capturing or taking possession of things
- Collecting and amassing
- Getting, receiving and accepting
- Giving, bringing or getting back
- Having in your hands
- Keeping and storing things
- Reciprocating
- Removing and getting rid of things
- Stop having or doing something
- Taking and choosing
- Taking things away from someone or somewhere
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make sb's heart flutter idiom
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make sb's mouth water idiom
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make sb's skin crawl idiom
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make short shrift of sth idiom
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make short work of sth idiom
- make sth (all) your own idiom
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make sth into sth phrasal verb
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make sth of sth phrasal verb
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make sth out phrasal verb
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make sth over to sb phrasal verb
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make sth stick idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- -owned suffix
- attach to sb/sth phrasal verb
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bearer noun
- belong to sb phrasal verb
- boast verb (HAVE)
- call verb (CONSIDER)
- glint verb
- hold verb (CONTROL)
- interest noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
- mistress noun (WOMAN IN CONTROL)
- not/never want for anything idiom
- own determiner, pronoun
- owner noun
- ownership noun
- possessive adjective (PERSON)
- proprietress noun
- revert to sb phrasal verb
- stake somewhere/sth out phrasal verb
- title noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
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