[ US /ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛkənsˌa‍ɪl/ ]
VERB
  1. accept as inevitable
    He resigned himself to his fate
  2. bring into consonance or accord
    harmonize one's goals with one's abilities
  3. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
    The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories
  4. come to terms
    After some discussion we finally made up
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How To Use reconcile In A Sentence

  • The correct designation of the early naturalists who tried to reconcile their observations with Genesis is "diluvialist. Vulcanists & Neptunists
  • They were reconciled but the marriage was annulled within a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • She must reconcile herself to the fact that she must do some work if she wants to pass her exams.
  • And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
  • Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
  • Attempts to reconcile religious differences have been going on for years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
  • The play explores children's honest if naive attempts to reconcile conflicts between rules of peer friendship and the expectations of parents.
  • The Reconciler's thread starts when its listener detects a new Document.
  • The subject is out of keeping with these letters, but unless some means can be found to reconcile colonial girls to service, I fear an evil is growing up in our midst which is likely to be even more baneful in its effects upon the community than the corresponding tendency to 'larrikinism' amongst colonial youths. Town Life in Australia
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