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Definition of making : 1. a poem.
2. Composition, or structure.
3. External appearance; from.
4. of Make
5. That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.
6. The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.

Synonyms:

reservation, qualification, reckoning, concluding

fathering, cultivating, mothering, manufacturing

procreating, founding, siring

execution, construction, generation, fabrication, formation, manufacture, creation, development, production

forming, constituting, framing, shaping, structuring, building

creating, conceiving, inventing

dressing, priming, constructing, fashioning, fabricating, outfitting, drafting, currying, mobilizing, arranging, furnishing, fitting, fostering, composing, warming up, readying, marshalling, setting, formulating, devising, developing, preparing, equipping

enforcing, forcing, giving rise to, causing, evoking, provoking, inspiring, driving, bringing about, generating, producing, effecting, engendering, acting, eliciting, motivating, inducing, originating, executing, engineering

Usage examples:

• But few of the Cave- men ever thought of making anything they did not need right away. - "The Later Cave-Men", Katharine Elizabeth Dopp.
• I believe you haven'tthe least idea that Uncle David's making up with us is all your doing! - "Polly of the Hospital Staff", Emma C. Dowd.
• Yet there is the making of a true man in him. - "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", Alexander Berkman.