View synonyms for make out

make out

verb

tr to discern or perceive
can you make out that house in the distance?
tr to understand or comprehend
I can't make out this letter
tr to write out
he made out a cheque
tr to attempt to establish or prove
he made me out to be a liar
intr to pretend
he made out that he could cook
intr to manage or fare
how did you make out in the contest?
informal.
introften foll bywith to engage in necking or petting
Alan is making out with Jane

They're also proof that no matter how fancy you are, you can't escape the urge to watch two girls make out.

Jenny Slate and Rosario Dawson make out at midnight because everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.

If you zoom in on Google Maps, you can just make out the jumbles of industrial machinery tucked away inside.

We could make out what she said cheekily in response to his questions.

They peered out into the gloom from Battery Park and could not make out her form.

Who he could not make out, except that it was a Kirton: and it prayed him to hasten down immediately.

Well, old boy, I guess you lost me more than I'll make out of you; but you've given me what I ought to have had three years ago!

I could not make out what it was, for the wind-was rustling the corn-shocks, but I arose and feigned to listen.

He stopped in the road and turned towards his companion, the shining of whose eyes he could just make out in the gloom.

And she thanked Heaven that in the dusk and in the shadow where she stood he could but ill make out her face.

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