make sth/sb out
— Phrasal Verb with make /meɪk/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle made)Definition
› to be able to see, hear, or understand something or someone: We could just make out a building through the trees.
(Definition of make sth/sb out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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