make whole

Verb

make whole (third-person singular simple present makes whole, present participle making whole, simple past and past participle made whole)

1. (transitive, set phrase) To restore (someone) to a sound, healthy, or otherwise favorable condition.
   • Pale the children both did look,
     But the guest a beaker took;
     "Golden wine will make you whole!"1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter 6, in Hyperion: A Romance
   • There isn't a man in the world who doesn't pity that poor black sufferer, and there isn't a man that wouldn't make him whole if he could.1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VII

   Synonyms:

   cure, heal, remedy, restore

2. (transitive, set phrase) To repair or restore (something).
   • Pandarus: Fair prince, here is good broken music.
     Paris: You have broke it, cousin: and, by my life, you shall make it whole again.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
   • Nell, busily plying her needle, repaired the tattered window-hangings, drew together the rents that time had worn in the threadbare scraps of carpet, and made them whole and decent.1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Fifty-second”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   fix, restore

3. (transitive) To provide (someone), especially under the terms of a legal judgment or an agreement, with financial compensation for lost money or other lost assets.
   • Perelman receives a government subsidy called "yield maintenance"—totaling about $406 million to date—to make him whole for carrying money-losing assets in the thrift.1991 February 10, Larry Light et al., “Were These Deals Too Sweet To Last?”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 28 Jan 2014
   • The only investor to be made whole, the lawsuit says, was First American Bank of New York, whose $5.5 million loan to the resort was repaid.1994 September 25, Jan Hoffman, Matthew Purdy, “Harriman Suit: Misconduct, Or Just Bad Luck Investing?”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jan 2014

   Synonyms:

   compensate, recompense, reimburse, repay