reconcile
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.
to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements;to reconcile accounts.
to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).
to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.
to become reconciled.
Origin of reconcile
1Other words for reconcile
Opposites for reconcile
Other words from reconcile
- rec·on·cile·ment, noun
- rec·on·cil·er, noun
- rec·on·cil·ing·ly, adverb
- pre·rec·on·cile, verb (used with object), pre·rec·on·ciled, pre·rec·on·cil·ing.
- pre·rec·on·cile·ment, noun
- qua·si-rec·on·ciled, adjective
- un·rec·on·ciled, adjective
- un·rec·on·cil·ing, adjective
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How to use reconcile in a sentence
Obama, whose policies were more moderate than his lofty campaign rhetoric, sought to reassure the establishment and reconcile with the Clinton wing.
Lenders also can request access to real-time API data feeds to view performance of their borrowers and reconcile transaction data.
Valon closes on $50M a16z-led Series A to grow mobile-first mortgage servicing platform | Mary Ann Azevedo | February 2, 2021 | TechCrunchIt’s a process that has been around since the 1970s and was meant to make it easier for the House and the Senate to reconcile differences in budget and tax bills.
The two ways a pandemic relief bill could pass, explained | Peter Stevenson | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostIt is not an obvious threshold, and it confused school officials trying to reconcile state and local government guidance.
State: School Districts Like San Diego Unified Cannot Reopen Now | Ashly McGlone | January 26, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoBringing about moderate democracy and sound governance in Hong Kong, while reconciling Beijing and Hong Kong’s interests, is at the very least a Herculean effort.
America presents two contradictory narratives that it struggles to reconcile.
reconcile is a rapper from Houston, a city with a rich hip-hop legacy.
Down With the King: Christianity Isn’t Hiding in Rap’s Closet | Stereo Williams | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.
Down With the King: Christianity Isn’t Hiding in Rap’s Closet | Stereo Williams | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEfforts to reconcile these differences have been delayed and the issue remains disputed.
First Lady Mellie (Bellamy Young) and Fitz reconcile—because of the whole rape thing—and we learn the son is actually his.
The Explosive ‘Scandal’ Finale Was Its Best Episode Yet | Kevin Fallon | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordBut, of course, all that is impossible, and the thing is to reconcile them to the inevitable things they have to face.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur ChapmanHere, then, is sufficient to reconcile the women to Mahomet, who has not used them so hardly as he is said to have done.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)But how are we to reconcile improbable facts related in a contradictory manner?
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)So Corydon had to reconcile herself to a house with a stove, and a stove-pipe that went through a hole in the wall!
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for reconcile
/ (ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl) /
(often passive usually foll by to) to make (oneself or another) no longer opposed; cause to acquiesce in something unpleasant: she reconciled herself to poverty
to become friendly with (someone) after estrangement or to re-establish friendly relations between (two or more people)
to settle (a quarrel or difference)
to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other
to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, etc)
Origin of reconcile
1Derived forms of reconcile
- reconcilement, noun
- reconciler, noun
- reconciliation (ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən), noun
- reconciliatory (ˌrɛkənˈsɪlɪətərɪ, -trɪ), adjective
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