Verb
To emphasize, put much value on.
Usage- usually
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He always makes much of the fact that he is related to an earl.
Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.
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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.
[…]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.
To give fond attention to; to cosset.
Usage- usually
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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.