Make out
Make out verb - Detect with the senses.
Usage example: I can't make out the faces in this photograph
Pick out
Pick out verb - Detect with the senses.
Usage example: The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
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Pick out and Make out. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/make_out/pick_out
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