make-out
Verbs
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(v) detect with the senses
- The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
- I can't make out the faces in this photograph
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(v) make out and issue
- write out a check
- cut a ticket
- Please make the check out to me
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(v) comprehend
- I cannot make out what this politician is saying
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(v) proceed or get along
- How is she doing in her new job?
- How are you making out in graduate school?
- He's come a long way
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(v) come to terms with
- We got by on just a gallon of gas
- They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
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(v) have sexual intercourse with
- This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
- Adam knew Eve
- Were you ever intimate with this man?
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(v) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
- The couple were necking in the back seat of the car
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(v) write all the required information onto a form
- fill out this questionnaire, please!
- make out a form
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(v) imply or suggest
- Your remarks make me out to be stupid
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(v) try to establish
- She made out that she know nothing about the crime