Definition of "make it up to" []

• To pay back, to return someone a previous good deed. (verb)

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• "He floated around for about ten years, trying to make it up to me and trying to redeem himself as a nonasshole in my mom’s mind."
• "Oswald had a birthday-card or two – that was all; but he did not repine, because he knew they always make it up to you for putting off keeping your birthday, and he looked forward to Saturday."
• "The depths of a slave†™ s sexuality, and love, I think, have never been sounded. “She was cruelly deprived, even so, ” he said. “We will make it up to her, ” I said. “Oh? ” he asked. “Well, perhaps we will, ” I said."