to cause people to have a particular false opinion about someone or something
to have sex, or to kiss and touch in a sexual way
to pretend that something is true
to see, hear, or understand someone or something with difficulty
to succeed, or to continue in a particular way
to understand someone’s character
to write all the necessary information on a document such as a cheque
Can you make out a face here on the photograph?
From time to time, she could make out the flash of his skin between the tree trunks.
From what I can make out it's somebody's medical records, or doctor's notes or something.
He made me out to be a liar.
He made out that he’d won the lottery.
Hollis waited patiently in a chair for twenty minutes, unable to make out what the Indian was muttering in his soft voice.
How is Frank making out in his new job?
I can just make a few words out on this page.
I can’t make her out.
I could barely make out the edge of the lagoon beyond the rods of rain.
I couldn’t make out what he was saying.
She made out a cheque and handed it to me.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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