making shift

The phrase “making shift” has 3 syllables: mak-ing shift

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ ˈʃɪft/


What is synonym and antonym for making shift?

In the thesaurus, “making shift” has 23 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for making shift along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for making shift

Antonyms for making shift

Example Sentences

  • The resourceful villagers were making shift with the few supplies they had left.
  • Despite the harsh conditions, they managed by making shift to survive the winter.
  • With no proper tools, she was making shift using what was available to fix the broken chair.
  • Making shift to adapt to new challenges is a skill often learned through necessity.
  • He admired their ingenuity in making shift to create something useful from scraps.

On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to making shift, such as: affording, carrying on, collapsing, contriving, coping, declining, doing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

making do

making ends meet

faring

  • accelerating
  • actuating
  • advance
  • advancing
  • affording
  • approaching
  • banqueting
  • boarding
  • breakfasting
  • breaking bread
  • carrying on
  • coming
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  • contriving
  • coping
  • digging in
  • dining
  • dining out
  • do
  • doing
  • driving
  • eating
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  • fast-forwarding
  • feasting
  • feeding
  • fending for oneself
  • forging
  • gaining ground
  • get by
  • get on
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • glutting
  • go
  • going
  • going along
  • going off
  • gorging
  • gormandizing
  • grazing
  • handle
  • happen
  • hie
  • impelling
  • journey
  • journeying
  • lasting
  • lunching
  • make headway
  • make out
  • making do
  • making ends meet
  • making out
  • making shift
  • manage
  • managing
  • marching
  • messing
  • muddle through
  • nearing
  • nibbling
  • noshing
  • overeating
  • overfeeding
  • pacing
  • partaking
  • pass
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  • picking
  • picnicking
  • pigging out
  • proceed
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  • pushing
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  • running
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  • shift
  • shifting
  • snacking
  • speeding
  • squeezing
  • stagger
  • supping
  • surviving
  • swinging
  • taking out
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • victualing
  • victualling
  • wending
  • wresting
  • wringing

making out

  • absorbing
  • acting
  • action
  • affecting
  • affording
  • appreciating
  • apprehending
  • ascertaining
  • assimilating
  • assuming
  • beholding
  • bluffing
  • bussing
  • camouflaging
  • canoodling
  • caress
  • caressing
  • carrying on
  • catching
  • cognizing
  • compassing
  • comprehending
  • concealing
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • construing
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • coping
  • counterfeiting
  • cuddling
  • deciding
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • deducing
  • deriving
  • digesting
  • digging
  • discerning
  • disguising
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • doing
  • drawing a conclusion
  • eking out
  • embracing
  • extrapolating
  • faking
  • faring
  • fathoming
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fending for oneself
  • finding out
  • fondling
  • gathering
  • getting
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • grasping
  • grokking
  • guessing
  • heavy petting
  • impersonating
  • inferring
  • interpreting
  • intuiting
  • judging
  • kissing
  • knowing
  • lasting
  • letting on
  • lovemaking
  • making
  • making a pretense
  • making a show
  • making believe
  • making do
  • making ends meet
  • making love
  • making shift
  • managing
  • masking
  • masquerading
  • necking
  • oral sex
  • parking
  • penetrating
  • perceiving
  • petting
  • philosophizing
  • picking up on
  • piercing
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • pretending
  • professing
  • putting on
  • putting on an act
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  • rationalizing
  • reading
  • realizing
  • reasoning
  • recognizing
  • registering
  • savvying
  • scrounging
  • seeing
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  • sensing
  • sex
  • sexual activity
  • shamming
  • shifting
  • simulating
  • smooching
  • speculating
  • spooning
  • squeezing
  • sucking face
  • supposing
  • surmising
  • surviving
  • swinging
  • taking in
  • thinking
  • twigging
  • understanding
  • wresting
  • wringing

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