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reconcile

UK/ˈɹɛkənsaɪl//ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/

reconcile verb: to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.

Verb

reconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
    • to wait until others have reconciled
  2. (transitive) To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.1693, [John Locke], “§2015”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

reconcile meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

reconcile in Tamil

சமரசப்படுத்து

reconcile in Urdu

ملاپ کروانا, راضی کرنا

reconcile in Malayalam

to reconcile
കൂടുക kūṭuka

reconcile in Kannada

ಬಗೆಹರಿಸು, ಹೊಂದಾಣಿಕೆ ನಡೆಸು, ಪರಿಹರಿಸು, ಸಮಾಧಾನ ಹೊಂದು, ಹೊಂದಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ರಾಜಿಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳು
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reconcile in Punjabi
مننا mannṇā
reconcile in Tagalog
makipagbati, magbati
reconcile in Arabic
أَصْلَحَ بَيْنَ ʔaṣlaḥa bayna, وَفَّقَ بَيْنَ waffaqa bayna, وَفَّقَ waffaqa
reconcile in Thai
คืนดี kʉʉn-dii

Examples of reconcile in a sentence

  • At first, reconciling the two points of view might have been possible.
  • She was the greatest wizard of her age and might have reconciled the church with the mageocracy.
  • In other words, God rightwises or reconciles humans to Him by infusing them with faith.

All 39 example sentences with reconcile

Forms of reconcile

third-person singular presentreconciles
present participlereconciling
past participlereconciled
pastreconciled
alternative formreconciliate

Past tense of reconcile: reconciled

Origin of reconcile

Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.

Words formed from reconcile

Questions about reconcile

What does reconcile mean?
Reconcile means to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
What is reconcile in Tamil?
Reconcile in Tamil is சமரசப்படுத்து. See Reconcile meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reconcile?
Reconcile is a verb.
How do you pronounce reconcile?
Reconcile is pronounced /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of reconcile?
The past tense of reconcile is reconciled.

Words near reconcile in the dictionary

  1. reconcilability
  2. reconcilable
  3. reconcilableness
  4. reconcilables
  5. reconcilably
  6. reconcile
  7. reconcileable
  8. reconciled
  9. reconcilee
  10. reconcilees
  11. reconcilement

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reconcile (page history and authors); reconcile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reconcile (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കൂടുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); reconcile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مننا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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