phrasal verb · neutral
make sense of
UK/meɪk ˈsens əv/US/meɪk ˈsɛns əv/make·SENSE·of
to understand or interpret something that is confusing
Examples
“I can't make sense of these results without more information.”
“She tried to make sense of the professor's explanation.”
“It takes time to make sense of a new cultural environment.”
Band 8 sentence
“After reviewing all the patient records, the clinicians were finally able to make sense of the pattern of symptoms.”
Collocations
- make sense of the data
- make sense of the situation
Word family
Common mistakes
make sense→make sense of
make sense from→make sense of
Say it for a higher band
5understand→6figure out→7+make sense of
Synonyms
understand
figure out
Easily confused
understand
“It took me hours to understand the complicated instructions.”
make sense
“His explanation makes sense, but I still don't know how to do it.”
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