verb
- Catch sight of.
- Detect with the senses.
- usage: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
- synonyms: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
- Mar or impair with a flaw.
- usage: "her face was blemished"
- Make a spot or mark onto.
- usage: "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
- Become spotted.
- usage: "This dress spots quickly"
- synonyms: spot
- Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.
- usage: "spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
- synonyms: spot
adjective
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