harmonize

Verb

harmonize (third-person singular simple present harmonizes, present participle harmonizing, simple past and past participle harmonized)

1. (intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.
   • This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 220
   • Late-night disruptions from the previous club repeatedly plagued the neighborhood. Mindful of this experience, we have been anxious to facilitate a new use for the building which would harmonize with the residential character of the area.1986 February 15, John Cronin, “More To It Than Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5
2. (intransitive) To play or sing in harmony.
3. (transitive) To provide parts to.
4. (transitive) To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle.
   • The flagrant contradiction between the two accounts is explained very simply by the circumstance that they are derived from two different and originally independent documents, which were afterwards combined into a single book by an editor, who pieced the two narratives together without always...1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 4
5. (transitive) To provide the harmony for a melody.