v.

1. detect with the senses;
   recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, tell apart
   
   • The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
   • I can't make out the faces in this photograph
2. make out and issue;
   write out, issue, cut
   
   • write out a check
   • cut a ticket
   • Please make the check out to me
3. comprehend
   
   • I cannot make out what this politician is saying
4. proceed or get along;
   do, fare, come, get along
   
   • How is she doing in her new job?
   • How are you making out in graduate school?
   • He's come a long way
5. come to terms or deal successfully with;
   cope, get by, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage
   
   • We got by on just a gallon of gas
   • They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
6. have sexual intercourse with;
   roll in the hay, love, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
   
   • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
   • Adam knew Eve
   • Were you ever intimate with this man?
7. kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion;
   neck
   
   • The couple were necking in the back seat of the car
8. write all the required information onto a form;
   complete, fill out, fill in
   
   • fill out this questionnaire, please!
   • make out a form
9. imply or suggest
   
   • Your remarks make me out to be stupid
10. try to establish
    
    • She made out that she know nothing about the crime