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Past tense of reconcile

regular verb

The past tense of reconcile is reconciled. The past participle is also reconciled.

Forms of reconcile

Base form (V1)reconcile /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/
Past tense (V2)reconciled /ˈɹɛkənsaɪld/
Past participle (V3)reconciled /ˈɹɛkənsaɪld/
Present participlereconciling
Third person singularreconciles

Reconciled in a sentence

  • to wait until others have reconciled
  • She was the greatest wizard of her age and might have reconciled the church with the mageocracy.2016, Luke Scull, Sword of the North, page 276. From the entry mageocracy
  • Remember that all reconciled amounts must be ticked off on the bank statement as reconciled.2000, Applied Accounting for the Microcomputer User, page 76. From the entry unreconcile
  • The immediate future of his pasch is his saving death, through which humanity is reconciled.1999, Anscar J. Chupungco, Handbook for Liturgical Studies: The Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry pasch
  • He had never become reconciled to the “boneyness” of American women, as he termed it.1934 April 8, John W. Kendrick, “Non Omnis Moriar”, in Don Shoemaker, editor, The Carolina Magazine, volume LXIII, number 12, supplement…. From the entry boneyness

Meaning of reconcile

  1. verb To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
  2. verb To make things compatible or consistent.
  3. verb To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Full definition of reconcile

Questions about the past tense of reconcile

What is the past tense of reconcile?
The past tense of reconcile is reconciled.
What is the past participle of reconcile?
The past participle of reconcile is reconciled.
Is reconcile a regular or irregular verb?
Reconcile is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reconcile (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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