reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
reconciled
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past participleof reconcile.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reconcile.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reconcileverb (used with object)to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
Example Sentences
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The couple briefly separated in 2025 after the first season of the reality show had aired, but later reconciled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Students in Milan and Marseille and Mumbai may well return to school and be reconciled to their lives, at least for now.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
The question for the chancellor is whether better consumer and business spirits can be reconciled with the need for a "challenging" Budget?
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Phobos' present-day gravity field, shape, density, spectral properties, and changing orbit must all be reconciled within a single geophysical model.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
She seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
