MAKE OUT

Detect with the senses

Example: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"

• discern  10
• distinguish  16
• pick out
• recognise  12
• recognize  21
• spot  6
• tell apart

• resolve  10
• discriminate  17

Make out and issue

Example: "Write out a check"

• cut  5
• issue  5
• write out

• write  8

• check  16

Distinguish by sight or hearing

Example: "I cannot make out what this politician is saying"

Proceed or get along

Example: "How is she doing in her new job?"

• come  8
• do  3
• fare  7
• get along

Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

Example: "We got by on just a gallon of gas"

• contend  10
• cope  8
• deal  5
• get by
• grapple  12
• manage  9

• act  5
• move  9

• extemporize  31
• improvise  16
• fend  8
• cut  5
• • hack  13
  • rub along
  • scrape along
  • scrape by
  • scratch along
  • squeak by
  • squeeze by
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Have sexual intercourse with

Example: "Adam knew eve"

• be intimate
• bed  6
• bonk  10
• do it
• eff  9
• get it on
• get laid
• have a go at it
• have intercourse
• have it away
• have it off
• have sex
• jazz  29
• know  11
• lie with
• love  7
• make love
• roll in the hay
• sleep together
• sleep with

• copulate  12
• couple  10
• mate  6
• pair  6

• have  10
• take  8
• fornicate  14

Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion

Example: "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car"

• neck  10

• pet  5

• smooch  13
• spoon  7

Write all the required information onto a form

Example: "Fill out this questionnaire, please!"

• complete  14
• fill out

Imply or suggest

Example: "Your remarks make me out to be stupid"

Try to establish

Example: "She made out that she knew nothing about the crime"