Synonyms for make out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : meyk

Phonetic Transcription : meɪk

Top 10 synonyms for make out

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Définition 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

Antonyms for make out

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