Past tense of "make up for" ambiguity
I am in a literary conundrum, I need to use the "make up for" idiom in past tense, however "make" translates to "made", which forms the "made up" idiom, which is fundamentally different from the "make up for".
Is "made up for" ambiguous? Should I leave it as it is or go for "compensated for"?
The actual sentence is "Stuff that cannot be made up for".
You can either make up to someone or make up for sth, but in both cases you would want to use "made".