make out

  • (verb): To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee.
  • (verb): To send out.
  • (verb): To discern; to manage to see, hear etc.
  • (verb): To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
  • (verb): To represent; to make (something) appear to be true.
  • (verb): To embrace and kiss passionately.
  • (verb): To engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.
  • Cheques may be made out to the Foo Bar Company.
  • In the distance, I could just make out a shadowy figure.
  • Oh, you were on a TV game show? How did you make out?
  • His version of the story makes me out to be the bad guy.
  • We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.