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Antonyms for make out
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : meyk |
Phonetic Transcription : meɪk |
Definition of make out
Origin :- c.1600, "get along," from make (v.) + out. Sense of "understand" is from 1640s; sexual sense first recorded 1939.
- verb see, recognize
- verb understand
- verb get by, succeed
- You make out a list of what dope you want—and be sure yuh get a-plenty.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- I don't believe I could make out the case, as I feel it to be.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- Kingozi could not make out the details of their appearance: only their eyeballs shining.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- I don't know how much you make out of plays, but you make a great deal.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- Miss Hunter applied her glass to her eye, but could not make out who it was.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- So you have not been able to make out the name of the stranger—the new lodger you tell me of?
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Now he was able to make out that it was only three o'clock in the morning.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- I pondered, and calculated, but I could not make out what it could be.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Pay me what you expect to make out o' glue, you mean, Virgil?
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- "I can make out some of it," he remarked to Dan, when his friend returned with the dictionary.
- Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
Synonyms for make out
- accept
- accomplish
- achieve
- catch
- collect
- compass
- comprehend
- conclude
- decipher
- deduce
- deduct
- derive
- detect
- dig
- discern
- discover
- distinguish
- do
- do well enough
- do with
- endure
- espy
- fare
- fathom
- flourish
- follow
- gather
- get along
- get on
- grasp
- infer
- judge
- manage
- muddle through
- notice
- observe
- perceive
- prosper
- realize
- recognize
- remark
- score
- see
- take in
- thrive
- work out
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