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PHRASAL VERBS 372

 make off (intr)

 run away, escape; [ kaçmak]

The mad dog made for me and I made off.

 make off with (tr)

 run away with; [bir şeyi çalıp kaçmak]

Three men made off with my cases yesterday.

 make out (tr)

 (tr) understand (character), discover the meaning of ; [ anlamak (bir şeyin anlamını)
çıkarmak, sökmek ]

He is a strange person. I can’t make him out.

I tried to make out what was being said.

 (tr) manage to see sb/sth or read sth; [ görmeye veya okumaya çalışmak]

She tried to make the sign out but she couldn’t.

 (tr) prepare an account, bill, cheque; [ (liste, form) doldurmak, hazırlamak ]

Haven’t you made the form out yet?
The waiter couldn’t make the account out.

 (intr) pretend; [ sanki –mış gibi yapmak]

John made out that he hadn’t seen ‘No Smoking’ sign.

 make up

 (intr or tr) use cosmetics; [ makyaj yapmak]

My mother never makes up.
When I entered her room she was busy making up her face.

 (tr) invent (story), fabricate (lie) sometimes in order to deceive people; [ (hikaye, yalan)
uydurmak]

I think she made up the whole story.
The latecomers began to make up excuses.