reconcile

[ rek-uhn-sahyl ]

/ ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl /

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verb (used with object), rec·on·ciled, rec·on·cil·ing.

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.

verb (used without object), rec·on·ciled, rec·on·cil·ing.

to become reconciled.

OTHER WORDS FOR reconcile

2 pacify, propitiate, placate.

4 harmonize.

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3 anger.

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Origin of reconcile

1300–50; Middle English reconcilen<Latin reconciliāre to make good again, repair. See re-, conciliate

OTHER WORDS FROM reconcile

rec·on·cile·ment, nounrec·on·cil·er, nounrec·on·cil·ing·ly, adverbpre·rec·on·cile, verb (used with object), pre·rec·on·ciled, pre·rec·on·cil·ing.

pre·rec·on·cile·ment, nounqua·si-rec·on·ciled, adjectiveun·rec·on·ciled, adjectiveun·rec·on·cil·ing, adjective

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How to use reconcile in a sentence

It’s hard to reconcile just how big Facebook really is as a company and what kind of influence it—and its subsidiaries—have across the globe.
State and federal officials want to break up Facebook. What does that mean for you?|Stan Horaczek|December 11, 2020|Popular-Science
Investigators determined that Wilkie’s testimony about his conversation with Crenshaw was “incomplete or incorrect,” but they were unable to reconcile it because he declined to sit for a follow-up interview.
VA Secretary Focused on Smearing Woman Who Said She Was Sexually Assaulted in a VA Hospital, Probe Finds|by Isaac Arnsdorf|December 10, 2020|ProPublica
You can see payments and banking in the same interface, you don’t need to alternate between your Stripe account and your bank account to reconcile transaction data.
Revolut lets businesses accept online payments|Romain Dillet|December 4, 2020|TechCrunch
McConnell’s office declined to answer questions about the change in position, and it was unclear how or if the differences could be reconciled in a final agreement.
What’s in the $908 billion economic relief proposal|Jeff Stein|December 3, 2020|Washington Post

They constantly feuded, and though they later reconciled, Wagoner is about the only person in “Songteller” whom Parton clearly doesn’t like.
‘Dolly Parton, Songteller’ is a gold mine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes|Allison Stewart|November 30, 2020|Washington Post
Grimm inquired if there had even been “unreconciled differences” prior to the implosion.
Jon Corzine Can’t Answer $1.2 Billion Question About MF Global at Hearing|Michael Daly|December 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST
My CFO told me that there was an unreconciled difference with our segregated accounts.
Jon Corzine Can’t Answer $1.2 Billion Question About MF Global at Hearing|Michael Daly|December 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST
His answer was a cry, inarticulate, wrung from him despite his effort at control, at finding her still unreconciled.
The Woman Gives|Owen Johnson
In the cataract's mighty roar may he not hear a voice proclaiming the anger of an unreconciled God?
Lands of the Slave and the Free|Henry A. Murray
The Sphinx is half human, half animal; the two are put together in stone and thus stand a fixed, unreconciled contradiction.
Homer's Odyssey|Denton J. Snider
While still unreconciled to the life I was leading, they were greatly interested in my wildly cheerful accounts of the country.
The Trail of '98|Robert W. Service
Jackson regarded him with a grey-blue eye unreconciled, but finally made his peculiar gesture of dismissal.
The Long Roll|Mary Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for reconcile

reconcile

/ (ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl) /

verb (tr)

(often passive usually foll by to) to make (oneself or another) no longer opposed; cause to acquiesce in something unpleasantshe 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)

Derived forms of reconcile

reconcilement, nounreconciler, nounreconciliation (ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən), nounreconciliatory (ˌrɛkənˈsɪlɪətərɪ, -trɪ), adjective

Word Origin for reconcile

C14: from Latin reconciliāre to bring together again, from re- + conciliāre to make friendly, conciliate

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