make out

make out
phrasal verb
Word forms "make out":
present tense I/you/we/they make out he/she/it makes out present participle making out past tense made out past participle made out
1)
a) [transitive] to see, hear, or understand someone or something with difficulty

I can just make a few words out on this page.

I couldn't make out what he was saying.

Can you make out a face here on the photograph?

b) informal to understand someone's character

I can't make her out.

2) [transitive] to write all the necessary information on a document such as a cheque

She made out a cheque and handed it to me.

3) [transitive] to cause people to have a particular false opinion about someone or something
make someone out to be something:

He made me out to be a liar.

4) [transitive] informal to pretend that something is true
make out (that):

He made out that he'd won the lottery.

5) [intransitive] informal to succeed, or to continue in a particular way

How is Frank making out in his new job?

6) [intransitive] American informal to have sex, or to kiss and touch in a sexual way

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  • make out — {v.} 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. * /The teacher made out the report cards and gave them to the students to take home./ * /Mrs. Smith gave the clerk in the store some money and the clerk …   Dictionary of American idioms

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