make out sth
informal— phrasal verb with make uk/meɪk/us/meɪk/verb made, made
to say, usually falsely, that something is true:
[ + to infinitive ] He made himself out to be a millionaire.
[ + to be ] The British weather is not always as bad as it is made out to be.
[ + (that) ] He made out (that) he had been living in Paris all year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Assertions & asserting
- airing
- assert
- assertion
- attestation
- aver
- claim
- emphatic
- foot
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- maintain
- misstate
- pled
- reaffirm
- set
- story
- take
- take it from me idiom
- take sth from sb
- that's my story and I'm sticking to it idiom
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