make good

verb5

1. •
   To complete successfully; to fulfil (a promise).

   • He made good his threat and made good his escape by jumping from a second-story window.
   • He made good on his threat to jump from a second-story window.
2. •
   To remedy or compensate for (a defect or deficiency).

   • The company made good the damage by paying my repair costs.
   • The company made good on the damage by paying my repair costs.
3. •
   To make (a surface) level or even.

   • […] the only action that will be required prior to decoration will be to wash down, make good and apply a fresh paint system. — 2005
4. •
   To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.

   • America does vaguely feel a man making good as something analogous to a man being good or a man doing good. — 1925
5. •
   To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.

   • After all the players who determine to go in have made good the bet of the player who opened the Jack Pot, and the hands have been filled […] — 1885