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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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