make whole

Definitions

1. 1

   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!"
   • 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.
   • "Go on, go on," she breathed. "Make him whole. Make him what he was." More than once, whenever Strang's recuperation permitted, Linday put him under the anæsthetic and did terrible things, cutting and sewing.
2. 2

   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.
   • 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.
   • I see Mexico made whole by my hands; a land of peace and plenty.
3. 3

   To provide (someone), especially under the terms of a legal judgment or an agreement,…

   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.
   • 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.

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