MAKE GOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make good mean? 

• MAKE GOOD (verb)
  The verb MAKE GOOD has 1 sense:

1. act as promised

  Familiarity information: MAKE GOOD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE GOOD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act as promised

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

make good on promises

Hypernyms (to "make good" is one way to...):

keep; observe (conform one's action or practice to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

And are you going to make good?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then from the moneys he shall take as much as may make good the damage, and the rest he shall keep until our home-coming, when every man shall have his share.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is also about using the information to make good decisions about your health and medical care.

(Health Literacy, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

When you have an important Saturn transit (as you will soon have), you learn to make good use of your time—you will be quite productive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I loved her young and I love her old, and when she goes she will take something with her which nothing in the world can ever make good to me again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Commissary general, will you make the fire and get water, while Miss March, Miss Sallie, and I spread the table? Who can make good coffee?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I could make good progress, therefore, and I could see without being seen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“An’ now we make good time. No more Spitz, no more trouble, sure.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope—hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy—good women, whose lives and whose truths may make good lesson for the children that are to be.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I will be the man. I will make myself the man. I will make good."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)