make free with

verb

Definitions

  1. To take advantage of (someone)

    To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)

  2. To exploit (something), use freely, use to one's own advantage

    • Oscar was […] reluctant to let a Poundamore make free with a Shillingsworth disgrace.
  3. To take (something) freely, help oneself to

    • Pat, and one of the Danes, who was as much addicted to tippling as himself, being unfortunately together upon watch, they made free with the spirits, and fell asleep through drunkenness.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA