· 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"

Synonym(s): spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick_out, tell_apart

· make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me"

Synonym(s): write_out, issue, cut

Hypernym(s): write

· comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is saying"

Hypernym(s): understand

· 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"

Synonym(s): do, fare, come, get_along

Hypernym(s): proceed, go

· succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"

Synonym(s): cope, get_by, make_do, contend, grapple, deal, manage

Hypernym(s): act, move

· have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

Synonym(s): sleep_together, roll_in_the_hay, love, 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

Hypernym(s): copulate, mate, pair, couple

· kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car"

Synonym(s): neck

Hypernym(s): pet

· write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form"

Synonym(s): complete, fill_out, fill_in

· imply or suggest; "Your remarks make me out to be stupid"

Hypernym(s): suggest, intimate

· try to establish; "She made out that she know nothing about the crime"

Hypernym(s): claim