make out
Kiss with passion
Make out covers several distinct activities.
To make out words or shapes is to discern them with difficulty: I could barely make out the sign through the fog.
To make out a check is to write it.
To make someone out as something is to represent them that way: They made him out to be a villain.
To make out also means to fare or manage: How did you make out at the interview?
Most commonly in American English, to make out is to kiss and caress passionately, stopping short of sex: We made out in the back of his car.
Informal term for kissing
- neckHead-body junction
- canoodleHug and kiss fondly
- snogKiss passionately, informally
- petDomesticated household companion
lock lips · embrace · caress · cuddle · passion · foreplay · nuzzle · grope
Grasp the meaning
- graspSeize or understand
- discernPerceive with careful attention
- perceiveBecome conscious of
- decipherConvert code to plaintext
fathom · recognize · distinguish · detect · identify · read · interpret · see
smooch
Informal term for kissing
pet · lock lips · embrace · caress · cuddle · passion · foreplay · nuzzle · grope · fool around
understand
Grasp the meaning
decipher · fathom · recognize · distinguish · detect · identify · read · interpret · see · glimpse
manage
Direct or handle successfully
prosper · thrive · progress · do · cope · survive · get by · muddle through · scrape by · come through
fill in
Temporarily replace someone
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- draftPreliminary version of text
- draw upCompose or prepare officially
prepare · issue · inscribe · compose · pen · document · formalize · execute
- detectiondetect, discover, find, identify, locate
- kisseskiss, peck, smooch, snog, buss
- innuendoinnuendo, sexual innuendo, double entendre, double meaning, implied meaning
- discoveryfind, finding, discovery, discover, uncovering
- selection wordschoose, select, handpick, cherry-pick, cull
make outmiss
Fail to reach
overlook · lose sight of · misperceive · confuse · tune out
make, out, made, makeup, maker, making, outcome, output, outlet