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1. See or hear differences; identify a particular part or parts of a whole; detect with difficulty
   "I can't make out the faces in this photograph";
   - spot, recognize, recognise [Brit], distinguish, discern, pick out, tell apart
    
2. Fill in and give as payment
   "make out a check";
   - write out, issue, cut
    
3. Distinguish by sight or hearing
   "I cannot make out what this politician is saying"
    
4. Perform, succeed or manage over a period of time
   "How are you making out in graduate school?";
   - do, fare, come, get along
    
5. [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]
    
6. Write all the required information onto a form
   "make out a form";
   - complete, fill out, fill in
    
7. Imply or suggest
    
8. Try to establish
   "She made out that she knew nothing about the crime"

Derived forms: makes out, made out, making out

Type of: claim, go, intimate, pet, proceed, suggest, understand, write

Encyclopedia: Make out