make out

/meɪk aʊt/

/meɪk aʊt/

Other forms: made out; making out; makes out

Definitions of make out

1. verb

   detect with the senses
   “I can't make out the faces in this photograph”

   synonyms: discern, distinguish, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart

   types:

   resolve

   make clearly visible

   discriminate

   distinguish
2. verb

   comprehend
   “I cannot make out what this politician is saying”

   type of:

   understand

   know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
3. verb

   write all the required information onto a form
   “make out a form”

   synonyms: complete, fill in, fill out
4. verb

   make out and issue
   synonyms: cut, issue, write out

   types:

   check

   write out a check on a bank account

   type of:

   write

   communicate or express by writing
5. verb

   proceed or get along
   “How are you making out in graduate school?”

   synonyms: come, do, fare, get along

   type of:

   go, proceed

   follow a certain course
6. verb

   come to terms with
   synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, manage

   types:

   extemporize, improvise

   manage in a makeshift way; make do with whatever is at hand

   fend

   try to manage without help

   cut, hack

   be able to manage or manage successfully

   rub along, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by

   manage one's existence barely

   cope with, match, meet

   satisfy or fulfill

   type of:

   act, move

   perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
7. verb

   have sexual intercourse with
   synonyms: have intercourse, have sex, love, roll in the hay

   neck

   kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion

   types:

   have, take

   have sex with; archaic use

   fornicate

   have sex without being married

   swing

   engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends

   bed-hop, bedhop, sleep around

   be sexually active with more than one partner
8. verb

   kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
   synonyms: neck

   have intercourse, have sex, love, roll in the hay

   have sexual intercourse with

   types:

   smooch, spoon

   snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others

   type of:

   pet

   stroke or caress gently
9. verb

   imply or suggest
   type of:

   intimate, suggest

   imply as a possibility
10. verb

    try to establish
    type of:

    claim

    assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing