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  • 1make out — (v.) c.1600, get along, from MAKE (Cf. make) (v.) + OUT (Cf. out). Sense of understand is from 1640s; sexual sense first recorded 1939 …

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  • 2make out — index detect, discern (detect with the senses), hear (perceive by ear), note (notice), perceive, pierce (discern) …

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  • 3make out — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you make something out, you manage with difficulty to see or hear it. [V P n (not pron)] I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth... [V n P] She thought she heard a name. She couldn t… …

    English dictionary

  • 4make out — {v.} 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. * /The teacher made out the report cards and gave them to the students to take home./ * /Mrs. Smith gave the clerk in the store some money and the clerk …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 5make out — {v.} 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. * /The teacher made out the report cards and gave them to the students to take home./ * /Mrs. Smith gave the clerk in the store some money and the clerk …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 6make\ out — v 1. To write the facts asked for (as in an application blank or a report form); fill out. The teacher made out the report cards and gave them to the students to take home. Mrs. Smith gave the clerk in the store some money and the clerk made out… …

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  • 7make out — 1) do, progress How did you make out at your job interview yesterday? 2) understand, interpret I can never make out what he wants to say when he phones me. 3) distinguish, identify The ship captain couldn t make out the other boat because of the… …

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  • 8make out — verb Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to complete (as a printed form) by supplying required information < make out a check > 2. to find or grasp the meaning of < tried to make out what had really happened > 3. to form an opinion or idea&#8230; …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 9make out — v. (colloq.) ( to have success ) (D; intr.) to make out with (how did you make out with the new boss?) * * * [ meɪk aʊt] (colloq.) ( to have success ) (D; intr.) to make out with (how did you make out with the new boss?) …

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  • 10make out — UK US make out Phrasal Verb with make({{}}/meɪk/ verb [T] (made, made) ► INFORMAL used especially in questions or negative sentences to describe how well or badly someone is doing something: »How s he making out in the new job? …

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