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reconcile

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verb
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As a verb, reconcile means restore a friendly relationship.

Meanings of reconcile

7 meanings

verb

  1. To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

    “to reconcile people who have quarrelled”

  2. To make things compatible or consistent.

    “to reconcile differences”

  3. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

  4. Make (one thing) compatible with (another)

    “The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories”

    Similar: accommodate, conciliate

  5. Bring into consonance or accord

    “harmonize one's goals with one's abilities”

    Similar: harmonize, harmonise

  6. Come to terms

    “After some discussion we finally made up”

    Similar: patch up, make up, conciliate, settle

  7. Accept as inevitable

    “He resigned himself to his fate”

    Similar: resign, submit

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for reconcile →
verb: make (one thing) compatible with (another)
accommodateconciliate
verb: bring into consonance or accord
harmonizeharmonise
verb: come to terms
patch upmake upconciliatesettle
verb: accept as inevitable
resignsubmit

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