"make much" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes much",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made much",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> much"
      },
      "expansion": "make much (third-person singular simple present makes much, present participle making much, simple past and past participle made much)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility, page 74:",
          "text": "Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To emphasize, put much value on."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_much-en-verb-6a4Uaxyf",
      "links": [
        [
          "emphasize",
          "emphasize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually with \"of\") To emphasize, put much value on."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with \"of\""
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "emphasize",
          "word": "betone"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "emphasize",
          "word": "stress"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "emphasize",
          "word": "underscore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "word": "pamper"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "word": "posset"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce, page 119:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give fond attention to; to cosset."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_much-en-verb-2VBmutBu",
      "links": [
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "cosset",
          "cosset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually with \"of\") To give fond attention to; to cosset."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with \"of\""
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "give fond attention to",
          "word": "coddle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make much"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes much",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made much",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made much",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> much"
      },
      "expansion": "make much (third-person singular simple present makes much, present participle making much, simple past and past participle made much)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility, page 74:",
          "text": "Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To emphasize, put much value on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "emphasize",
          "emphasize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually with \"of\") To emphasize, put much value on."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with \"of\""
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Albert Payson Terhune, Bruce, page 119:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give fond attention to; to cosset."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "cosset",
          "cosset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually with \"of\") To give fond attention to; to cosset."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with \"of\""
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "emphasize",
      "word": "betone"
    },
    {
      "sense": "emphasize",
      "word": "stress"
    },
    {
      "sense": "emphasize",
      "word": "underscore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "give fond attention to",
      "word": "coddle"
    },
    {
      "word": "pamper"
    },
    {
      "word": "posset"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make much"
}