make good
About 3.81 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
- verb To complete successfully; to fulfil (a promise).
He made good his threat and made good his escape by jumping from a second-story window.
- verb To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.
- verb To remedy or compensate for (a defect or deficiency).
The company made good the damage by paying my repair costs.
- verb To make (a surface) level or even.
Similar words
come good make a go of succeed do well for oneself make something of oneself make it do well make achieve go strong
Word family
made good made good for made good on make good for make good on makes good makes good for makes good on making good making good for
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