make of
verb1
To form an opinion about (someone or something); to appraise (a person, idea or situation).
- What do you make of the new guy?
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, of.
- To make of carrots alone, put in about two pounds sliced carrots in stewpan with three tablespoons butter and place where they will stew gently an hour without browning.1887, “Carrot Soup”, in Estelle W[oods] Wilcox, compiler, The Buckeye Cook Book. […], subscription edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Buckeye Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, “Soups” section, page 831: