make free with verb3 •To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)Mr. Browne […] protested he had never made free with any woman but his wife, since his marriage. — 1817 •To exploit (something), use freely, use to one's own advantageOscar was […] reluctant to let a Poundamore make free with a Shillingsworth disgrace. — 1938 •To take (something) freely, help oneself to[…] I left my father's house unknown to any one, having made free with a coat and jacket of our gardener's which fitted me, by way of disguise: […] — 1767 formsmade free with · making free with · makes free with