Definition of "make out" []

• Make out and issue (verb)
• Comprehend (verb)
• Try to establish (verb)
• Come to terms with (verb)
• Proceed or get along (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Faintly in the distance she could make out … “Rock Your Body.”"
• "When my eyes get used to the semi-darkness of the entrance, I make out a goat lying on a bed of straw and a hen clucking around a litter of brown chicks."
• "Moon Unit Zappa is a writer, filmmaker, wife, and mom who would happily come out of acting seclusion to make out with Michael Schoeffling under the keen and watchful writing/direction of John Hughes."