1. Detect or identify something despite difficulty or distance
   "I could barely make out the ship through the fog";
   - spot, recognize, recognise [Brit], distinguish, discern, pick out
    
2. Distinguish by sight or hearing
   "I cannot make out what this politician is saying"
    
3. Perform, succeed or manage over a period of time
   "How are you making out in graduate school?";
   - do, fare, come, get along
    
4. Try to establish
   "She made out that she knew nothing about the crime"
    
5. Imply or suggest
   "His actions make out that he's not interested in the job"
    
6. Write all the required information onto a form
   "make out a form";
   - complete, fill out, fill in
    
7. Fill in and give as payment
   "make out a check";
   - write out, issue, cut
    
8. [informal] Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
   "The couple were making out in the back seat of the car";
   - neck [informal], pash [Austral, NZ, informal], smooch [informal], snog [Brit, informal], spoon [archaic]

Derived forms: making out, makes out, made out

Type of: claim, detect, discover, find, go, intimate, notice, observe, pet, proceed, suggest, understand, write

Encyclopedia: Make out