Dictionary entry details
• MAKE OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Detect with the senses
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
discern; tell apart; make out; pick out; distinguish; recognise; recognize
Context examples:
The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards / I can't make out the faces in this photograph
"Make out" entails doing...:
comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make out"):
discriminate (distinguish)
resolve (make clearly visible)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make out and issue
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
make out; write out; issue; cut
Context examples:
write out a check / cut a ticket / Please make the check out to me
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
write (communicate or express by writing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make out"):
check (write out a check on a bank account)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The banks make out the check
Meaning:
Comprehend
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
I cannot make out what this politician is saying
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Proceed or get along
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
get along; fare; do; make out; come
Context examples:
How is she doing in her new job? / How are you making out in graduate school? / He's come a long way
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Meaning:
Come to terms or deal successfully with
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
make do; grapple; get by; cope; manage; deal; contend; make out
Context examples:
We got by on just a gallon of gas / They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make out"):
extemporize; improvise (manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand)
fend (try to manage without help)
cut; hack (be able to manage or manage successfully)
rub along; scrape along; scrape by; scratch along; squeak by; squeeze by (manage one's existence barely)
cope with; match; meet (satisfy or fulfill)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Have sexual intercourse with
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
have it away; have it off; have sex; screw; lie with; make love; roll in the hay; sleep with; have intercourse; have a go at it; get laid; get it on; fuck; eff; do it; bonk; be intimate; hump; jazz; bed; love; bang; make out; know
Context examples:
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm / Adam knew Eve / Were you ever intimate with this man?
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
copulate; couple; mate; pair (make love)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make out"):
have; take (have sex with; archaic use)
fornicate (have sex without being married)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
neck; make out
Context example:
The couple were necking in the back seat of the car
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
pet (stroke or caress gently)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make out"):
smooch; snog; spoon (snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Write all the required information onto a form
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
fill out; fill in; complete; make out
Context examples:
fill out this questionnaire, please! / make out a form
"Make out" entails doing...:
get down; put down; set down; write down (put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Imply or suggest
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
Your remarks make me out to be stupid
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
intimate; suggest (imply as a possibility)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Try to establish
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
She made out that she know nothing about the crime
Hypernyms (to "make out" is one way to...):
claim (assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing)
Sentence frame:
It ----s that CLAUSE
