From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
make out
v 1: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked
out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I
can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: {spot},
{recognize}, {recognise}, {distinguish}, {discern}, {pick
out}, {make out}, {tell apart}]
2: make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket";
"Please make the check out to me" [syn: {write out}, {issue},
{make out}, {cut}]
3: comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is
saying"
4: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
"How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
long way" [syn: {do}, {fare}, {make out}, {come}, {get
along}]
5: come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas";
"They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" [syn:
{cope}, {get by}, {make out}, {make do}, {contend},
{grapple}, {deal}, {manage}]
6: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: {sleep together}, {roll in the
hay}, {love}, {make out}, {make love}, {sleep with}, {get
laid}, {have sex}, {know}, {do it}, {be intimate}, {have
intercourse}, {have it away}, {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck},
{jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie with}, {bed}, {have a go at it},
{bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]
7: kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple
were necking in the back seat of the car" [syn: {neck}, {make
out}]
8: write all the required information onto a form; "fill out
this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" [syn:
{complete}, {fill out}, {fill in}, {make out}]
9: imply or suggest; "Your remarks make me out to be stupid"
10: try to establish; "She made out that she know nothing about
the crime"
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