make out is a verb meaning "detect with the senses". It carries 10 recorded senses.
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”
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
archaism
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for make out come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.