make free of
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]make free of (third-person singular simple present makes free of, present participle making free of, simple past and past participle made free of)
- To use something that belongs to another person (often with permission)
- 1892, Grace E. King, “Bayou L'Ombre”, in S. T. Joshi, editor, Civil War Memories: Lost Tales of the Civil War[1], Thomas Nelson, published 2000:
- The chickens and dogs were making free of the galleries, and the hogs wallowed in peaceful immunity underneath.
- 1967, Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Fables of a Jewish Aesop, translated by Moses Hadas, Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2001, p. 110 [2]
- There she saw many mice making free of wheat and barley; six measures of barley they meted out to themselves to bring to their holes, until they had enough and to spare.
- 1979, Tanith Lee, Death's Master, New York: Daw Books, p. 23, Book 1, Part 1:
- […] a young woman curtsied to him. "Please make free of my home," said she.
- 1981, Nadine Gordimer, July's People[3], Penguin:
- He did not know everyone knew he had a gun; that the children who made free of every hut as the cockroaches knew everything and chattered all.