VERB
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succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
We got by on just a gallon of gas -
comprehend
I cannot make out what this politician is saying -
try to establish
She made out that she know nothing about the crime -
detect with the senses
I can't make out the faces in this photograph
The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards -
have sexual intercourse with
Were you ever intimate with this man?
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve -
kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
The couple were necking in the back seat of the car -
proceed or get along
He's come a long way
How are you making out in graduate school?
How is she doing in her new job? -
imply or suggest
Your remarks make me out to be stupid -
write all the required information onto a form
make out a form
fill out this questionnaire, please! -
make out and issue
write out a check
Please make the check out to me
cut a ticket
How To Use make out In A Sentence
- I wrote a long paper last fall which you can find here in which I make out Gore as an epigone of Heidegger. Enowning
- Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
- Believe me it's far more difficult to know what to say to an unconscious loved one than the movies make out.
- As she looked over towards Erik, Maria could only make out his silhouette in the dim light.
- At first instance the plaintiff did not seek to make out a case of an attempt to pervert the course of justice or of contempt of court.
- Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
- The tests make out that the structure of the frame is basically rational, and the frame can direct the working-out or recensing standards on the field of agricultural mechanization to some extent.
- In the grainy black and white photo I can still make out the sheen of A.'s hair oil and the way he slicked his dark locks back on the sides.
- We could nohow make out his handwriting