Cryptic crossword clue
Sort of characters in Duma Key

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MAKE

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What does MAKE mean?

MAKE noun
  1. Brand or kind; model.
  2. Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
  3. Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
  4. A person's character or disposition.
  5. The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  6. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  7. A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
  8. Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
  9. (usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).
  10. A promotion.
  11. A home-made project
  12. Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
  13. A made basket.
  14. The closing of an electrical circuit.
MAKE verb
  1. To create.
  2. To behave, to act.
  3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  4. To constitute.
  5. To add up to, have a sum of.
  6. (construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  7. (usually stressed) To bring into success.
  8. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  9. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  10. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  11. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  12. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  13. (of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  14. (law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
  15. To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  16. To proceed (in a direction).
  17. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  18. To move at (a speed).
  19. To appoint; to name.
  20. To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  21. To defecate or urinate.
  22. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  23. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  24. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  25. To enact; to establish.
  26. To develop into; to prove to be.
  27. To form or formulate in the mind.
  28. To perform a feat.
  29. To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
  30. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
  31. To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  32. To be engaged or concerned in.
  33. To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  34. To take the virginity of.
  35. To have sexual intercourse with.
MAKE noun
  1. Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
MAKE noun
  1. A halfpenny.
MAKE noun
  1. An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.

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