Reconcile
/ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/ verb
verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony. ambitransitive
"to reconcile people who have quarrelled"
- 2 bring into consonance or accord wordnet
- 3 To make things compatible or consistent. transitive
"to reconcile differences"
- 4 make (one thing) compatible with (another) wordnet
- 5 To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance. transitive
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- 6 accept as inevitable wordnet
- 7 come to terms wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"I would rather kill myself than reconcile myself to my fate."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.