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Make out

verb

1.

Detect with the senses. Synonyms: discern, distinguish, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart. "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

2.

Make out and issue. Synonyms: cut, issue, write out. "Cut a ticket" , "Please make the check out to me"

3.

Comprehend.

4.

Proceed or get along. Synonyms: come, do, fare, get along. "How are you making out in graduate school?" , "He's come a long way"

5.

Come to terms with. Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, manage. "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"

6.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

7.

Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion. Synonym: neck.

8.

Write all the required information onto a form. Synonyms: complete, fill in, fill out. "Make out a form"

9.

Imply or suggest.

10.

Try to establish.

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"Make out" Quotes from Famous Books

... needn't try to smooth it over, Jack Ruddy," fumed the bully. "Don't imagine that I don't know all about the mean stories you and others are circulating about my family. You'd like to make out that my father is the worst swindler that ever lived, and I won't ...

— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield

... likely Dudu thought I could carry you if there was anywhere you couldn't climb," said Hugh, importantly. "I'm sure I——" he stopped abruptly, for a sudden crow from Houpet had brought all the party to a standstill. At first the children could not make out why their guide had stopped here—there was nothing to be seen. But pressing forward a few steps to where Houpet stood, Hugh saw, imbedded in the moss at his feet, a stone with a ring in it, just like those which one reads of in the Arabian Nights. Houpet stood ...

— The Tapestry Room - A Child's Romance • Mrs. Molesworth

... whole thing yet," said an old landowner who knew the region well. "There is something serious behind all this which I can't yet make out. The Abbe Troubert is too deep to be fathomed at once. Our dear Birotteau is at the beginning of his troubles. Besides, would he be left in peace and comfort even if he did give up his lodging to Troubert? I doubt it. ...

— The Vicar of Tours • Honore de Balzac

... most obstreperously. The day of my wife's departure, she came to me, talking with the greatest earnestness; but whether it was to condole with me on my loss, or to demand my redoubled care for herself, I could not well make out. As Puss now constitutes a third part of the family, this mention of her will not appear amiss. How Molly employs herself, I know not. Once in a while, I hear a door slam like a thunder-clap; but she never shows her face, nor speaks a word, unless to announce a visitor ...

— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... and lithe as a little Indian's. His mother was very proud of him,—not because he was good, but because he was pretty. She was a very foolish woman, and talked to him a great deal about his fine clothes, and his curling hair; but for all that she didn't make out to spoil Georgey. He didn't care an old marble, not he, for all the fine clothes in Christendom; and would have been glad to have had every curl on his merry ...

— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern

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