make fast

verb

To tie reliably.

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Meanings

verbmake fast (third-person singular simple present makes fast, present participle making fast, simple past and past participle made fast)

present singular third person makes fast · participle present making fast · participle past made fast · past made fast

  1. To tie reliably.

    I pulled back, made fast again to the jetty, and then went to sleep at last.

    1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth
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    It is a well-known fact that an immense proportion of boat accidents would never happen if people held the sheet in their hands instead of making it fast; and yet, unless it be some martinet of a professional mariner or some landsman with shattered nerves, every one of God's creatures makes it fast.

    1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

make fast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/make%20fast

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “make fast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/make%20fast.

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