Dictionary

make much en · VERB

Meanings

1. (usually, with "of") To emphasize, put much value on.
   • […]Much has been made of Tuchel's decision to exclude Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham, despite the player's wish to be included, but in his absence Villa's Rogers justified that choice with another fine performance. 2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “England 3-0 Wales”, in BBC:
   • Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling. 2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility, page 74:
   • Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood. 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:
   • He always makes much of the fact that he is related to an earl.
2. (usually, with "of") To give fond attention to; to cosset.
   • Usually, on such visits, the colonel made much of the dog. Today he merely glanced up abstractedly from his writing, at sight of Bruce's silken head at his side. 2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce, page 119:

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Synonyms

stress (emphasize) · posset · betone (emphasize) · underscore (emphasize) · coddle (give fond attention to) · pamper